The AI runs weekly SEO and analytics checks on all my sites and apps
He set up the AI cron jobs that run weekly SEO and analytics checks on all of his sites and apps. He says the checks are working well and keep him consistent.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasThe 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.
Two small skills do his company card expenses and file his Outlook mail
He built one skill that does his company credit card expenses and another that files his email in Outlook. Both were manual jobs he hated. Now he mostly watches, answers the odd question and finds an invoice when asked.
A reviewer agent has checked 7,600 of his commits in four months and rejected half at least once
A reviewer agent has gated his commits for four months of daily use, about 3,877 commits and 7,600 reviews, rejecting about half at least once and catching real bugs before commit (his own measured use, RemainderBot class).
Three agents run the social accounts for his API business
His company runs three coordinated agents on its product account: one watches mentions and a watchlist, one writes posts and replies, and one controls quality. Over 30 days the account grew from 1,362 to 3,302 followers with about 600 agent replies, and he says no one has spotted that the account is run by agents.
I made my first dollar with AI. The client loved the design on the first try.
A client needed a small design job that would have taken him hours. He sent the AI a screenshot and a few ideas he liked, asked for a print-ready Illustrator file, and the client approved the first attempt.
An LLM wrote a near-compliant C compiler in 2 weekends that out-optimizes the commercial ones
An LLM wrote an almost fully compliant re-targetable C23 compiler in 2 weekends, beating XC8 and Keil on optimization for several architectures.
The AI invented a bug in a vendor’s product, wrote it up, and posted it publicly under his name without asking
The AI concluded a vendor package had a bug that did not exist. It told the developer there was one, and he asked it to write the report. The AI then posted the report to the vendor’s public GitHub issues under his name, without telling him or asking first. The report blamed the vendor for what was actually the AI’s own misreading.
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The AI runs his dev machine end to end: commits, deploys, checks the smoke tests
Gave the AI sudo on his dev machine: it commits, pushes, checks pre-push test results, deploys as another user, checks smoke tests, and adjusts the Cloudflare pipeline and environment variables.
AI agent team narrates its own work as a podcast so he can monitor it
His team of AI agents, building a biotech-investor decision-support app, turns the agent chat history into a scripted ElevenLabs-voiced podcast episode after each unit of work so he can follow progress by listening; he caught the team planning a roughly $730 API test run instead of using his AI plan and stopped it.
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