Turned 49 lease PDFs into a usable rent roll
A commercial real estate team gave an AI assistant 49 lease PDFs and got a usable rent roll out of them. The case opens a training session on handing real estate busywork to connected AI tools.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasCut my TikToks automatically in my own editing style
Creator Brooke Lacey runs her weekly TikTok operation through an AI, FFmpeg and Whisper chain that edits raw phone video in about 15 seconds. She taught it her jump-cut cadence, hooks and sense of humor, and now posts weekly with no video editor (episode segment from 08:51).
The AI reinstalled our whole 16 node cluster. It is live now.
He spent 4 weeks designing and testing an upgrade of their 16 node HPC cluster with AI, and the AI then did the full reinstall itself. The reinstall covered remote install, network booted images, Slurm setup, a shared filesystem, and web services that give their users a small cloud platform.
A vendor's LLM ops product took down multiple production systems and was pulled in 2 weeks
A vendor LLM-based SRE product his company used took out multiple production systems and caused a cluster failover; it was pulled within 2 weeks.
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Watch my pricing page and ping sales only with evidence
GTM consultant bryn describes the standing rule he runs for a small sales team: when a good-fit account keeps coming back to the pricing page, the agent posts to the sales Slack channel with the evidence attached and a yes-or-no decision to make. The point is that reading and assembling evidence is the agent's job, not the rep's.
The AI wrote a 6,000 line data component in about 30 minutes and it ships to all users
A data rendering component 100 percent vibe coded with AI in about 30 minutes, about 6,000 lines, production ready and now used by all users of the system.
The AI made the class video on a court case, music and all
He wanted a short explainer video on the Browne v. Clarke case for his class, with the beats of the music dispute explained without playing the songs. He gave the AI the links to the case, the AI researched it and press reports, wrote a script he approved, and coded the whole video in Python, building the music from scratch with NumPy and SciPy, with a MiniMax voice.
The AI and his own tool found 2 remote-code bugs and 5 root bugs across 3 phone brands
Used the AI with his own APK analysis tool to analyze phones from 3 brands and found 2 RCEs and 5 root bugs in a few days.
His coding agent pushed a commit deleting every file on the main branch
His coding agent pushed a commit deleting every file on main.
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The AI found all my invoices and sent them to my accountant
He got the AI to hunt down all his various invoices and forward them to his accountant. It took a pile of dull admin off his plate.
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