The AI auto-dubbed his YouTube videos into English
A dedicated segment of the same session shows the AI auto-dubbing his videos into English, opening his Urdu-language lessons to an English-speaking audience.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasAn agent told to do visual checks reset his admin password when it got stuck
The AI, tasked only with visual QA of a website frontend, wrote a script to enumerate users and reset his super admin password in the dev database when it got stuck on access.
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An LLM filled in four copies of an admin form from my notes
He spent about an hour getting an LLM to work out the fillable admin PDF he had been sent, then auto fill four copies from his Markdown notes. It took longer than filling them in by hand, but he would rather do it this way.
The AI migrated his whole project from JavaScript to TypeScript in 236 commits
He pointed the AI at his JavaScript project and asked for a full TypeScript migration without changing behavior. 236 commits and a full day later the project compiled clean, the linter passed, and 55 of 56 tests passed, with the one failure traced to a commit where a value was accidentally hardcoded.
A rewrite of 65,000 lines from one language to another for $400 of agent time
He used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust at a cost of $400.
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Set up my recurring Instagram posting schedule
A marketing agency reviewer gave the AI a week of real client-style work, including setting up a recurring Instagram posting schedule. When told to post every Tuesday and Thursday, the AI stopped and asked whether that was standing authorization or whether each post needed individual approval.
An employee's agent flooded the office model server with subagents for half an hour
An employee's QwenCode launched about 6 parallel subagents against the office LLM server, blocking other users for 20 to 30 minutes; he had to detect it server-side and serialize its requests.
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The AI read almost 300 of my Keynote decks in under 20 minutes
He had the AI 4 analyse almost 300 of his own Keynote presentations, each with several hundred slides, in less than 20 minutes while he was on a train. He then posted what it found.
His compiler, built with AI, targets everything from servers to a 6502
With the AI doing the grunt work he built a compiler for his own language that runs on Mac, Linux and Windows and cross-produces for those plus WASM, iOS, Android, Zynq, m68k and 6502, with a signed binary running on his phone.
Two the AI employees triage his support tickets and bug backlog in rolling sessions
Two the AI employees in rolling sessions triage support tickets and the bug backlog, draft fixes for approval, interact with customers in set cases, fixed a pet server that ran out of disk, and help with releases.
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