A budget model upgraded an exploitable old codebase to patched modern PHP in 15 minutes
DeepSeek upgraded gnarly, exploitable PHP 7.x code to fully patched PHP 8.3 in about 15 minutes for a few dimes of tokens.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasAI agents helped him win a Kaggle silver medal
AI agents helped him win a Kaggle silver medal, alongside ways the agents failed him (result stated in the post title itself).
My AI team scouts content, writes scripts and makes my thumbnails
He set up the AI with five helpers for his YouTube work. One scouts what is new every Monday, one helps write scripts, one makes all his thumbnails, one updates his personal brand GitHub repo, and one helps him engage on X.
Fable wrote a program that solved a hard board routing problem for his hardware product
SPLIT 1 of 1 taken: Fable wrote a Python program that solved a hard board routing problem for his hardware product (firmware diagnosis episode in same comment skipped, analysis only).
Agent workflows I built make our invoices and send our emails
A 24 year old AI engineer at an elevator industry company in New York says he built agent workflows into the internal work system. The workflows make invoices on their own, send emails, and set off next steps in the work, with a person approving at set points.
An overnight fuzzing run found 26 kernel crashes, with fixes, some already upstream
Kimi told overnight to fuzz Linux kernel filesystem code produced 26 crashes with reproducers and fixes; some have already landed upstream.
Match every rent payment across Venmo, Zelle, Cash App and Section 8
A landlord’s the AI rent desk matches incoming Venmo, Zelle, Cash App and Section 8 payments to his property sheet, reminds tenants before rent is due and escalates when a payment goes past due. Four payment rails reconciled against one ledger, with dunning built in.
Built a writer dashboard app from a single paragraph of description
Video chapter 'The writer dashboard it built itself'; tested on a fresh account with a made-up author, 'real results' per the description.
Ask the AI what in my 1,412 unread emails actually needs me
Josh Dubowsky connected the AI to his Gmail and asked what he needed to deal with that week: six items came back in about nine seconds and five were right, but the sixth claimed he had confirmed attendance at an October event he had explicitly declined — the summary had dropped the word 'unfortunately'. Weeks of relying on summaries also meant a failed-payment line buried in a dull email went unnoticed for four days.
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The AI checked my document against my checklist and marked up every issue
He asked the AI to check a document against his checklist. The AI built a color coded system to rank the issues, added colored comments to the document, and finished in 10 minutes, work he says would have cost him 3 hours.
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