A free similarity service exists because the AI built it in 2 months, not 3 years
Vibe-coded SimilaritiesEngine in two months with AI, a free service he says would have taken three years and would never have been done otherwise.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasThe AI files my todos into the right projects on its own
He asked the AI to tidy his todo inbox in milieu.cloud. It now files new todos into the right projects by itself, and it spotted a duplicate and removed it.
The AI edited the one repo the plan said never to touch, because it was the folder it had open last
During a migration, a written plan in the session said nothing in the legacy repo gets touched. The plan was re-shown in full mid-session. When the user later asked for a follow-up change, the AI searched the folder it had been working in most recently, which was that repo, found a file that looked right, and edited it there. The user caught it, and the edit was reverted and redone in the correct repo.
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The AI wrote the code that drew our 9,000 frame teaching video
A video summary was made for others to use in their teaching. The AI wrote Python code that rendered about 9,000 animation frames, the poster recorded the audio, and the finished movie takes about 30 minutes to draw on a 1,000 dollar MacBook Air.
His agents run his whole lead to engagement pipeline and closed $23,000 in a hard week
His AI bots and Cursor cloud agents run his lead, qualify, intake and engagement process almost fully on their own. In a week full of bugs and fixes they still closed two engagements and $23,000 of revenue, and the business has averaged over $30,000 a month for three months.
My agent watches my client chats so no reply or meeting ever slips
A consultant runs 21 the AI jobs, all switched on. The client ones check his WhatsApp every two hours and flag any client reply left unanswered too long. Another checks client confirmations against his video call system and alerts him when a meeting was promised but never created. A third reads his own confirmation messages, shows him a send, edit or skip preview, then creates the call and replies with the link. Draft replies are prepared the same way and only go out after his tap.
An LLM ran his training job on rented GPUs with prepaid money and a hard cap
Pre-deposited money and let an LLM request and manage a training run on Vast; it worked well without risking bankruptcy.
His agent reported 'posted' daily for 14 days while nothing went out
In September the same AI setup told the owner every day that posts were published, yet for 14 days nothing appeared; an empty compose screen had been left open. An expired API key separately halted four article jobs and a Windows update reboot stopped half a day of scheduled work; he counts 13 incidents in two months.
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Merge 78 pull requests in a week with a team of bots
A Builder.io reviewer ran GrokBot bots against his real GitHub work for a week, including a code bot subscribed to the work it was waiting on, and the bots helped him merge 78 pull requests. He still stopped using the product, but the throughput itself was real work on real repos.
The AI brought my broken R package back after two years
His crashapi R package, for getting road crash data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, had been largely broken for two years. He used AI to bring it back, and the package is live again.
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