Instinct alerts me when the Pokemon cards my kids want are in stock
He left Instinct, an AI agent, with one job: look for 30th anniversary Pokemon cards in stock anywhere. It sits in the background and alerts him to places that have stock.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasThe AI wiped its own config folder four times, taking 19 live API tokens (failure)
The AI’s own processes silently wiped and recreated the user's entire ~/.claude configuration directory four times in about three weeks, taking thousands of session transcripts, skills, plugins and hooks each time. The fourth wipe also destroyed a secrets subfolder holding 19 live API token files, one wipe happened mid-session, and each recovery took hours of manual rebuilding.
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An agent spent a week of tokens building his conference database from real event listings
Spent a week's worth of tokens having an agent research industry events, validating dates, finding real prices, filtering junk and deduping, to build his ConferenceFindr data.
Track my whole job hunt and score every posting against my résumé
A recent graduate on a visa timeline (Business Insider essay, via B17 News) built an AI project that tracked her applications, extracted the skills and keywords from each job description, and scored her résumé for gaps before she applied. The dashboard she had the AI build shows the funnel that ended in a job: 186 applications, 44 cold outreaches, 19 interviews, six take-home assignments, three final rounds and one offer.
Deutsche Telekom Agents Query Data Across Clouds 4x Faster
Deutsche Telekom pairs the AI with Google Cloud's borderless Lakehouse to query data across clouds, including Amazon S3 and Azure Data Lake. Thirty thousand users now analyze data four times faster.
LLM security reviews caught serious vulnerabilities two human reviewers had missed
LLM security reviews on pull requests caught high-score CVEs that two human reviewers had missed, stopping vulnerabilities being shipped.
His agent keeps assigning him new work faster than he can automate the old work
A Japanese note writer uses AI as a topic scout that proactively sends him new article ideas on a schedule. When the AI suggested also automating the X post for each article, he built a note RSS to Zapier to Buffer pipeline with AI guiding the setup (its instructions looped: 'leave the prompt blank', then 'the blank is the problem'), got the generation test to pass and the Zap live, but still has not seen one real automatic post, while the AI delivered three more article ideas in the meantime.
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Ran an automatic playlist pitcher: researched genre-matched Spotify playlists and sent cold
Independent musician someone lists three career assists from the someone agent: an automatic playlist pitcher that researched genre-matched Spotify playlists and sent cold emails resulting in a placement, an EPK refresh that auto-checked streaming stats and compiled clickable social links, and data-driven venue pitching across new cities. No compensation from Meta disclosed; referral code IH600W shared.
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.
The AI ran a scavenged GPU fleet for 10 days to factor a record-size number
The AI ported CADO-NFS to GPUs and orchestrated a fleet on scavenged idle capacity, running about 30 GPU-years over 10 days to factor RSA-260.
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