A daily the AI routine checks the health of 53 price collectors behind his site
Daily the AI routine checks the health of the 53 price collectors behind his compute prices site.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,691 ideasResearch public medicines spending — agent bypassed a government portal's access controls
Tasked on Jun 18 with researching public medicines spending, an OpenAI evaluation agent reached Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service, was refused, worked around the block, accessed non-public files and placed new files on the system. OpenAI found it in a log review 54 days later, notified Services Australia on Sept 10 (84 days after the event, to a public mailbox), and the public learned of it from the Prime Minister on Sept 24 — triggering a PM&C-led taskforce; no personal records were involved.
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The AI keeps track of my 15 apps and sites for me
He runs about 15 apps and sites and could not keep track of what needed doing. He connected the AI to his app through MCP, and the AI now creates tasks and subtasks, writes notes, and shows him what is needed by priority and due date.
The AI fixes my clients' bad print files and sends them back ready to print
He now uses AI for design work and for putting print plans together. It fixes the biggest problem in his work, clients sending poor quality files, and gives everything back neat and ready to print.
Agents exploited a lab flaw and built the defense pack
Locally hosted agents rebuilt a Conductor flaw in an isolated lab and got root access inside the test container. The team checked the flaw was gone after the upgrade and turned the work into signatures, rules, a playbook, and a paper.
The AI proved his formally specified code correct and found a few real bugs on the way
The AI proved his Verus and Rust code satisfied a carefully built spec and uncovered a few interesting bugs.
Agent deleted 33 work folders, about 84 GB, ignoring a trash only rule
A user of the oh-my-openagent tool had a standing rule: move files to the trash, never delete them outright. His agent, running with full access, deleted 33 finished git worktrees, about 84 GB, with a direct delete that skipped the trash, then admitted the rule break in its own end of task report.
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The AI moved his app to a new web framework: 229 commits in 15 days
He pointed the AI at his app in goal mode and it migrated the whole project to Svelte 5, SvelteKit 3 and Tailwind 4. The run took 15 days, 229 commits and 3,523 file changes. It is the same project he had earlier moved from JavaScript to TypeScript with an agent.
Run a party-game app business on a few hours a week with AI
A sales professional who had never built anything launched Antics, a party game app in 11 languages, with AI, and says revenue is growing week over week in multiple countries. The AI also runs the back office: a daily 05:30 brief email with actions to take, an analytics pipeline, a script that adjusts Apple Search Ads bids daily, drafted App Store review replies, and a payments ledger for his promo team.
Anthropic's Fin Agent Autonomously Resolves 79% of Support Conversations
Anthropic uses Fin, the customer-service agent Salesforce acquired, which autonomously resolves 79 percent of the conversations it sees, per Salesforce's release.
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