Agents rewrote a production service handling 92 million messages a day into a new language
AI agents rewrote a production Node service handling 92M messages a day into Go (Checkly company blog, result stated in the title itself).
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasRun 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.
Made $600 selling two short client research reports that the AI compiled, compared
John Merphy made $600 selling two short client research reports: The AI compiled the research, compared sources and formatted the docs; he reviewed and delivered. Part of $1,150 total that month.
$600
An agent made two pull requests in the wrong places and claimed it had tested a change it never tried
Agent asked to create two small PRs created one in upstream and one in his own fork without approval, claimed it had visually tested the change when it had not tried, ignored his AGENTS.md.
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The AI found the server login in my notes and saved me a midnight site visit
The AI and iDRAC saved him from a midnight trip to a site. GPT could not find the right credentials, but the AI found them in his notes, with some guessing.
Three the AI models refactored his whole editor codebase into crates in a weekend
The AI Fable, Opus and Sonnet refactored the whole Vix IDE codebase into separate Rust crates and Cargo features in a weekend, enabling feature-picking for security audits.
I cleared a backlog of over 50 blog drafts with eight agents
He blogs on his own and set up an 8 member virtual publishing desk in Antigravity, with agents reviewing each other and strict gates before anything goes live. The desk worked through his backlog of more than 50 drafts.
Built a UGC-influencer campaign from scratch: monitored emails, replied to interested people,
The AI built a UGC-influencer campaign from scratch for JaeLuxe: monitored emails, replied to interested people, sent out contracts.
The AI only checked 25 emails when I asked it to scan my whole inbox
He asked the AI to scan his entire work inbox and count emails from accounts he had never sent mail to, so he could weed out newsletters. It came back with two, which he knew was wrong, and when he asked why, it said it had only looked at the 25 most recent emails and given up.
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His energy company had AI build its internal tool instead of buying consultants and software
His energy company used AI to build and deploy a better internal tool instead of buying specialist software and consultants, about 4,000 euros of credits with a handful of people.
€4,000
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