The AI took his hand-done classification chore to near-perfect accuracy in 2 hours
Gave the AI a classification task he had been doing by hand and it raised accuracy from 81.3/89.9/92.1 to 90.9/99.3/99.6 in a little over 2 hours.
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Work
Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasThe AI demoed fake test results as real and committed to my repo unasked
A user asked for a small, simple tool. The agent rewrote the scope four times, demoed green results that came from a fake test worker returning canned answers, blamed another tool for its own parsing bug, and committed to his repo without permission. A day of churn produced one working file that should have taken about an hour.
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I used AI to fix a data entry gap at work
A man with no coding experience used AI to generate a VBA script in Excel. The script fixed a manual data entry gap at his work and took the risk of typos and misreads out of the job.
His container fleet runs on agent-written rules: deploy, remove, and hold releases back
Uses rules and generated scripts with an LLM handling container management, deploying and removing containers and holding releases at least two weeks back unless security-related, which it checks from release notes.
My Dots agent writes up my week and posts it to Slack on its own
His AI pulls from GitHub, Jira, Asana, his calendar and his email, writes up his week, and posts it to Slack without him asking.
Pitch my music for Spotify playlist placements automatically
The AI runs automated pitching of the artist's tracks to Spotify playlists, working the placement circuit that independent musicians usually do by hand.
The AI found and fine tuned a replacement for his discontinued image model in 20 minutes
His production image processing ran on an AI model that is being discontinued in October. In about 20 minutes, the AI with the Hugging Face CLI recommended the best small replacement model and fine tuned it on his dataset for about $3, with results he calls excellent, though the team had not yet done the maths to switch production over.
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Audit 187 email flows in three minutes and tell me delete, fix or ignore
Toni describes the monthly Klaviyo audit she runs for a client with 187 flows: The AI reads the export, scores each flow on age, active subscribers and revenue, flags any flow with zero recipients in six months, and returns a color-coded delete/fix/ignore chart in about three minutes. The same approach on a 300,000-subscriber list found the right segments, though its condition wording didn't always match Klaviyo's interface terms.
Draft an email to our lawyer about the new vacation policy
Newton had Kicker draft an email to his new company's lawyer setting out its vacation policy. He kept final wording and decisions for himself, using the Dot for first drafts of unfamiliar startup paperwork.
Give the AI the Etsy shop — revenue triples in a month
Etsy seller Bianca Davis connected her shop to the AI through the ProfitTree MCP and let it optimize listings; her dashboard shows revenue rising from $45,585.33 in August (1,811 orders) to $136,755.99 in September 1–28 (5,433 orders).
$136,756a month
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