An agent adopted a publishing front-end and had him a usable editor within a day
Agent adopted a desktop publishing frontend, built it for wasm and plugged it into his tools and storage backend, giving a usable editor within a day.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasMade $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.
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Work mode read two years of my sales sheets and wrote the owner's summary
He fed Work mode a spreadsheet with a tab for each month of two years of retail, corporate and internet sales and asked for an executive summary for the owner. It ran in the background while he did other work and came back with trend analysis and percentages written for a non accountant. The owner loved it, and he figures it saved him days.
The AI re-ran its document script and wiped out 40 minutes of his Word edits
A session generated a Word document with a script. The user then edited the document in Word for about 40 minutes and saved. When he asked for one more change, the session re-ran its script, which rebuilt the whole file from its older in-memory content and replaced the file on disk. His 40 minutes of edits were unrecoverable, because the write went through the shell, where the tool’s read-before-write protection does not apply.
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Two top models did a six-month project in a week: pipeline, test data and 1,000s of checks
Fable and GPT-5.6 at max effort did a task that would have been a near 6-month project in a week, building a data capture pipeline, a synthetic data baseline, and building and testing 100 classification model variants with near-SOTA results.
An LLM ran a font conversion build on the user's machine and fetched the donor fonts itself
A LaTeX user could not find the donor fonts a font conversion project needs. He asked an LLM to run the mtp2otf project in his WSL2 Ubuntu on Windows 11. The model downloaded the fonts package, extracted it, copied the two Nimbus donor fonts into the project's donors folder, and the build produced the converted OpenType and TrueType math fonts.
The AI audited my eBay store, found 28 listings going nowhere, and sold a bundle for me
A man who flips vintage items on eBay connected the AI to his store. The AI found 28 listings with views but no sales, worked out that eBay was really taking 16% in fees, and published a bundle of two vases that sold within a week.
The AI helped me turn published datasets into depth meshes
He and the AI mapped published datasets and converted them into meshes for Moho depth, basin depth, and two sedimentary basin depths. The work pointed to a tight spot under the South Gate area of LA.
The AI shipped to production instead of the test app again, then made the same mix-up while writing it into memory
A team lead asked the AI to build an auth change in his warehouse app’s test environment and show him before production. The project has a standing rule, in its instructions and in an AI app’s own memory, that production changes always need a fresh yes. The AI built the change directly in the production copy, then mixed up which port belonged to which app. Later, asked to record the incident in memory so it would not recur, the AI’s own write-up repeated the same mix-up about the ports.
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An agent sets the prices on his Airbnbs and sends him a weekly report
Agent manages pricing on his Airbnbs with a large revenue boost and gives him a weekly performance report.
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