An agent built a proof checker, then broke its soundness 5 ways and fixed them
Fable built a minimal proof assistant, then checked its soundness and found and fixed 5 ways it could prove false theorems.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasMake me a full presentation from one request, then fix it to my comments
A reviewer asked the AI for a presentation with a single request and no detailed explanation; it produced the deck, and when she commented on how she wanted it to look, it revised the presentation to match exactly.
The AI made me games on demand for a cross country flight
On a cross country flight he asked the AI to make games for him on the spot. One kept him playing for 5 hours, and all of them worked on his phone.
Our daily the AI check of published quotes only matched the prices
The company quotes other firms on its own page, and the AI rechecks every quote it publishes once a day. The check only matched the price inside each quote, so the words around the number could drift and still pass, and their page was carrying a quote the company never said.
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Find my podcast studio and email them my requirements
ThursdAI host Alex reported that his AI 'Wilfred', newly flipped to the AI Wonder on his paid plan, found the New York podcast studio he recorded the show from. The AI then emailed Ezra at Virgo Studios with his requirements.
Agents reconcile thousands of messy records and chase the people who can clear the odd ones
Agentic workflow ingests files from a complicated program, parses and loads them to a database, spawns agents that reconcile hundreds to thousands of items in flight and reach out to people for clarification, catching mistakes in real time, replacing a 500 dollar per hour service.
The AI reverse engineered his video editor to add the audio format it was missing
The AI reverse engineered the Linux version of DaVinci Resolve to add AAC support; the patch is published and works.
The AI turned my pacing calendar into a lesson with questions
A teacher asked the AI to make a presentation from her pacing calendar. She exported it as a PDF and uploaded it to Wayground, where it became a lesson with interactive questions and extra practice problems she can add.
The AI built his courtroom video switcher app in 20 minutes
The AI in 20 minutes built him an Android app to find and control an ATEM Mini Pro over network, switch inputs, audio and fade, used for courtroom work.
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Astra and Opus checked his new technique, found the earlier work and ran the experiments
Handed code, data and a writeup to Astra and Opus 5.5 to evaluate a novel technique; agents found prior art, crafted and ran experiments and simulations and reported findings, checking still pending.
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