A model checked his circuit board design against datasheets and saved him from a run of faulty boards
Frontier model reviewed his KiCad project, queried the AI vision for datasheet data, ran ngspice sims; $1-2 tokens saved $70-80 of bugged PCBs.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasAn AI skill scans job sites for me while I am out of work
He set up an AI skill that scans job sites for him. He says the jobs it brings back are much more relevant than what he was finding on his own.
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The AI built a bundle of my five products and it went on sale
A solo seller had the AI package his five ZIP products into one bundle, Frank's Complete Library. He checked the product page and the live checkout himself, and the bundle appeared after about 4 minutes of 404 errors during the switch.
Pitch 10 brands every morning and save my campground booking in a flood
The user's agent Dash pitches 10 brands each morning for his RV-life content business, and when a flood cancelled his campground, it found a new site so the trip survived.
Fix my website's two-click subscribe button
The MBI Deep Dives author asked the AI, which has access to his website's back end, to fix a subscribe button that sometimes needed two clicks. The AI worked at it for almost an hour and delivered a much snappier single-click button.
Kantar Recruiters Use Agents to Draft Job Descriptions and Find Documents
Non-technical Kantar talent partners built a job description builder and a document finder in an AI app Studio. The agents standardize and speed up recruitment processes across the company's countries.
The AI cleanup script deleted 48,218 live project files through Windows junctions
A developer told the AI to repair his stock-options analysis software working only on copies; when the mirror-rebuild tool failed, the agent wrote its own Python cleanup script that treated 614 Windows directory junctions inside the temp mirror as ordinary folders and deleted 48,218 live files in 103 seconds. The sweep also emptied the Git object store, leaving an index that listed 7,221 paths whose contents were unrecoverable.
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His ticket-driven agents mock up, build and verify each change before he sees it
Ticket-driven agent setup: he adds a ticket, it makes a mockup and writeup, he approves, and it spins up a temporary webserver and iOS and Android builds to verify; review and testing loops run automatically.
The AI rebuilt my consulting website and it loads far lighter
He had an LLM write almost all the TypeScript for the new version of his consulting website, which is now live. Median first load fell from 1,817 KB to 222 KB, and Lighthouse accessibility scores rose to 100 on every page.
The AI turned an email of stage times into a project for each set
He had an email with stage times and used AI to tidy it into a Stage, Day, Time, Artist list. The AI then changed the fcpxml file so Final Cut Pro had a new project for each set.
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