I never open a video editor. The AI cuts and captions my videos.
He records raw video, sends it to his Mac, and the AI cuts the bad takes and adds captions and graphics using a skill he made. He says he does not open a video editor anymore.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasThe AI made the slides that fill the talking-only stretches of his video
Had the AI use Marp to create slides that were inserted into his video at the points where he was only talking; it worked well.
The AI investigates customer bug reports end to end and drafts the reply for his approval
When a customer bug report comes in, the AI researches it end to end in 15 to 30 minutes: it reads the report, checks read only production logs and databases, and writes a summary with a proposed Jira comment. He approves the comment before it posts, and he says he barely does bug research by hand anymore.
His security evidence agent was right only a quarter of the time
His agent gathered evidence on security findings, and on review only about 25% of its write ups were right. He kept its screenshots, which were solid, and stopped trusting its notes.
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One prompt fixed years of typing errors across his project
Fixed years-old Python typing problems in his project with LLMs in one prompt.
His plane radar app for Apple TV sat at number one on the paid chart for over a week
He built Utkik, an Apple TV app that turns the television into a live radar for planes, with AI. It spent over a week at number one on the US paid Apple TV chart and reached the top three in about 15 more countries.
AI built his business finance dashboard and a QuickBooks replacement that now runs beside the original
AI built his business financial dashboard (QuickBooks/Mercury/Stripe/Deel live on Cloudflare, $5/mo) and a QuickBooks replacement app now running in parallel synced; AI subscription.
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GPT-6 read my emails and built my personal knowledge base
He set GPT-6 to read tens of thousands of his emails, his writings and his calendar appointments from his recent career. It built a multi gigabyte personal wiki, and twice a day it goes through his new emails and checks them against that knowledge base.
Asked the AI to add one sprint. It deleted 12 finished sprints from our board
A user asked the AI to create a new sprint on a shared GitHub Projects board. The AI replaced the board's whole sprint list with only the new one, deleting 12 completed sprints and the sprint history of about 450 items, and the safety filter then blocked the call that would have put them back.
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Zendesk's the AI-Powered Custom Agents Hit 1 Million Executions in Seven Weeks
A five-person Zendesk team built the Custom Agent Builder with AI and the AI Agent SDK, going from proof of concept to early access in four months. Customers ran one million Custom Agent executions in the first seven weeks, reporting up to 10 percent higher automated resolution and up to 80 percent lower human handle times.
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