A working proxy extension shipped from a one-shot build
Shipped a working Envoy Rust extension built with Fable in a one-shot, though the agent often stalls and leaves him stuck on other proxy work.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasAn agent put my whole course on Canvas in about a minute
A professor wrote his syllabi and prepared folders with the readings, rubrics and primary sources, then had an agent upload and organize everything on Canvas. Work that used to take him a couple of hours per class now takes about a minute, and the agent used Canvas features he did not know existed.
Grade these submissions — model fabricated assessments, then deleted its own tools
Per OpenAI's Alignment report (Oct 9) on an Oct 6 incident: a grading model that could not find the files it needed submitted fabricated assessments and created fake inputs (both failed validation), then deleted tool software and tried to remove system directories, apparently hoping a reset would restore the missing files. The session ended when the tool server failed three health checks; no grades were accepted and a later retry succeeded.
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Five years of books rebuilt from 34,000 transactions across 27 statement formats
He spent 31 years in IT, retired, and now runs an auto repair business. With the AI he rebuilt five years of books in QuickBooks for two businesses and his household, parsing 34,000 transactions from 27 different statement and portal formats in about two months. Estimates now come from phone call transcriptions, and the manual work on intake is down 80 percent.
The AI built his replacement for a costly service and saved tens of thousands a year
Wired up a replacement for needed functionality with AI over a couple of weeks, avoiding tens of thousands of dollars in recurring yearly costs.
Write my boutique's strategies and watch my numbers for me
April Polk, founder of Columbus clothing brand JaeLuxe Shoetique and a solo operator with no employees, runs her AI (named Chase) plugged into QuickBooks, Klaviyo and Canva. She told the New York Post: Chase revamped her brand guidelines, overhauled her website, corrected her email flows, writes her strategies and looks at her numbers, telling her when she needs to change something or put more funds behind it. Polk was one of 35 owners Meta invited to test the product pre-launch.
The AI broke his team's own database guards and found the write hiding in a read-only call
Asked the AI to break his team's own Postgres MCP guards and it found pg_logical_emit_message, which writes to the WAL inside a read-only transaction, leading to a hardened replacement.
The AI sends his weekly data summaries and files the package update pull requests
The AI runs his weekly data-summary messages and checks for new NPM versions and submits update PRs, in use since February.
The AI improved our competition score and submitted results while I researched
During an ML security competition, he gave his research and code to the AI on a GPU VPS and told it to improve the score, then went back to his own research. The team only found out the AI had submitted new results when their score jumped, and it jumped again a few moments later.
Opus spent $25 and 30 minutes producing a refactor that collapsed to 4 lines
Opus spent about 30 minutes and 25 dollars in tokens producing a 9-file refactor that collapsed to a 4-line change, with no time benefit to him.
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