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Tune my local model and package the optimisation

A user had the AI apply TurboQuant skills to optimise a Qwen3.5-9B model running locally via MLX on Apple Silicon. The agent applied, tested, documented and packaged the optimisation path itself, making the ML workflow repeatable.

Read every job advert, tailor my CV and apply with my approval

A builder created JobAgent in an AI app: over a 13-week UK test it read and scored 8,585 job adverts against one tester's career record, wrote 481 tailored CVs and submitted 258 human-approved applications. The run produced 8 interviews and 3 offers — roughly one interview per 32 applications.

The AI edits my videos so I can post more

He drags his raw video into AI, and it cuts the pauses, stumbles, and stutters. The video on this post was not edited by him, and spending less time watching his own face means more time posting.

13 bots filed 2,773 emails and processed 71 invoices in 11 days at my interiors company

An interiors company runs 13 the AI on 46 routines. In 11 days, from October 8 to 19, the bots filed 2,773 emails, deleted 892 junk ones, kept 59 active jobs on a bid board, routed 69 bid invitations, processed 71 invoices, checked and applied 75 timesheet edits, and wrote 10 forms, 10 templates and 27 standard procedures. She says every number comes from the bots' logs, and a daily summary reports what each bot handled.

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I let Astra run a software factory for 35 hours. It built nothing of value.

Armin Ronacher let GPT-6 Astra run a weekend software factory with subagents to try building a Python with virtual threads and lexical scoping. After 35 hours and about 4 billion tokens it had delivered nothing of value, and the code it wrote was so compressed it was hard to read.

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Clear 2,384 support tickets at 91% resolved for $11.20

A business ran a seven-agent the AI support desk that cleared 2,384 tickets with a 91% resolve rate for $11.20 in usage, with billing questions and furious customers fenced off and flagged for a human. The angry and money-touching tickets never reached the bots’ send button.

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Settlement program cuts a bookkeeper's 12-hour Thursday to under one hour

Alongside his homemade TMS, Wes Oberman built a settlement payroll program that calculates every driver's pay automatically. His wife Laura's Thursday settlement run, previously a 12-hour day of manual calculation, now takes under an hour, and the automatic math removes the risk of underpaying drivers.

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