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Run my big projects as the AI threads and keep them moving

John Voorhees has his Dot, Puck, coordinate his work: he spins large projects off into AI threads and lets the Dot manage them, alongside setting up tasks, checking email and doing light research. He says the delegation has worked reliably the couple of times he has used it.

Build an AI workspace that searches 300+ job sources and fit-scores every lead

Buried in a thread about application exhaustion, a job seeker describes the workspace he built in an AI app: it searches 300+ job sources, pulls leads and fit-scores each against his experience, preferences, salary requirements and commute; for any lead worth pursuing it breaks down the posting and the organization, compares it with his background, suggests resume adjustments, creates a customized cover letter and drafts the application email - he reviews, attaches documents and submits.

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Authors locked out of KDP after Amazon blocks GrokBot

The Novel Marketing podcast reported that Amazon’s robots.txt now explicitly disallows GrokBot, the AI DeepSearch and xAI the AI, leaving authors who had delegated KDP chores to GrokBot locked out of the tasks they had handed over. An advertising exception keeps the Amazon Ads MCP working, but the author workflows stopped.

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Let the AI audit and automate my agency's work for a week

Agency owner Nick Saraev documented handing his business's work to the AI for a week: auditing every task, having the AI plan the automation systems, building evals, and turning the winners into reusable skills. The tasks that scored well were scheduled to run without him; he kept judgement calls for himself.

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