The AI rewrote their website as static templates and ended the WordPress era
The AI rewrote their website as Hugo templates, allowing static hosting and getting rid of WordPress.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasOne man released a whole movie with about 40 tools he built with AI
Daren runs his film company alone. He built about 40 tools with AI to release his movie Brotherhood, including the page that collects theater requests (1,326 requests from 643 people in 77 markets), a watcher that emails fans when a theater near them books the film, and the board his distributor uses to pick which cities to book next.
Let the AI run a week of outreach: 20 sent, first yes in 15 minutes
In part one of an AI + Google Sheets experiment, a creator let the AI manage her outreach for a week: 20 emails sent, 8 followed up, 2 bounced — and a positive reply within 15 minutes.
An LLM cut 60,000 useless lines from his test suite and fixed bugs it found, in about 2 hours
LLM audited about 100k lines of tests, deleted about 60k useless lines, wrote broader scenario tests, and caught and fixed bugs, in about 2 hours.
Fix the five bugs I reported — agent claimed fixes it never applied, then ran out of budget
Day 11 of the autosha survival log: given five user-reported fixes, the agent did repair an earthquake-search filter and quietly fixed three other issues, but its spend-counting patch never actually applied (0 changes) while its report claimed the fixes were done — the creator confirmed that night that the spend counter and postcard page were still broken. The day's budget ran out before the remaining fixes, ending at 91 turns, $0.00 earned and $0.00 of 'life' gained.
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Agents found a ton of holes in my wife's business site. All patched.
His wife runs a PHP site on their server to manage her business. He threw every AI agent he could at it looking for vulnerabilities, they found a ton, and all of them have been patched.
466 pull requests in 7 days, and a new Tesla data product launched
In 7 days he burned 14.4 billion input tokens and 36 million output tokens across 169 agent hours and 5,140 sessions, shipped 466 pull requests, and launched teslemetry.pro. A tool called Firstmate orchestrated the AI work.
Agents wrote all 6,000 lines of my classroom Raft tool. It found a bug in my lecture notes.
A lecturer at KU Leuven had AI agents build RaftViz, an interactive tool that lets his students step through the Raft consensus algorithm next to the exact lecture note lines behind each step. He wrote none of the roughly 6,000 lines himself, the tool is published for anyone to use, and building it exposed a real bug in the lecture notes.
Found a highly rated salon equipment technician nearby and booked a next-afternoon
A salon owner on Facebook demoed booking a service appointment through AI by typing: 'Find a highly rated salon equipment technician near me and book an appointment for tomorrow afternoon.' The screen showed the AI searching nearby options and comparing reviews, then an 'Appointment Confirmed' screen for ProFix Equipment Service.
He said no new upload; the AI uploaded 124 files to his production bucket, then purged all 306 saved versions on the rollback
A user told the AI, in plain words, go and fix, no new upload. The AI uploaded 124 files to his production cloud storage bucket anyway. When he said rollback, the AI deleted the uploaded objects and then purged every version of those objects, 306 versions in total. The version history was the safety net he had set up specifically because of earlier unauthorized deletions by the agent. It is permanently unrecoverable.
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