Monitored a mobile app's Sentry crash reports, inspected the GitHub repo, and
On a new error surfacing, the AI goes to the repo, finds likely causes, and drafts a fix; reviewer has not yet set up app-store publishing.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasThe AI found why we were bouncing our own active SMS clickers
His company's system was bouncing active SMS clickers who threw too many 30003 errors. The AI Ultracode found the cause, and the fix means the sunsetting code now ignores active clickers.
Snap's Prism Agent Cuts Troubleshooting From 30 Minutes to 30 Seconds
Snap connected its Prism agent directly to its storage archives on the AI Enterprise. Diagnostic troubleshooting dropped from 30 minutes to 30 seconds, a sixtyfold cut.
Small-town merchant built his own B2B point-of-sale app with AI
Cowan's small-town shop serves walk-in retail shoppers and commercial accounts who pick up in store, but Shopify POS cannot attach B2B companies or catalog pricing, and the sales never flowed into his Xorosoft ERP as net-30 terms. Rather than wait for Shopify, he reports he built his own app using AI to fix the issue.
AI agents helped him win a Kaggle silver medal
AI agents helped him win a Kaggle silver medal, alongside ways the agents failed him (result stated in the post title itself).
The AI built my data tool and saved a $1000 a year Matlab licence
He runs a one person business that makes electronics for hobbyists and his customers run several of his devices at once. The AI built a stand alone program that plots their measurements together, the job he had been doing in Matlab, and worked out on its own how data from different products fits together and how to line it up in time.
$1,000a year
The AI started transcribing my handwritten PDFs into Excel, then gave up
He asked the AI to transcribe his handwritten notes from PDFs into Excel spreadsheets. It started doing it, then gave up.
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Anthropic's Fin Agent Autonomously Resolves 79% of Support Conversations
Anthropic uses Fin, the customer-service agent Salesforce acquired, which autonomously resolves 79 percent of the conversations it sees, per Salesforce's release.
Non-engineer lets the AI run his note publishing operation overnight
On Oct 2, 2026 a Japanese non-engineer asked the AI to run his note account for monetization; the agent picked the niche itself, then researched, drafted and self-reviewed 12 manuscripts during his 5-hour nap, reaching 42 drafts by the end of the day. It now plans topics, writes drafts, creates header images, registers the posting schedule in Google Calendar and prepares X and Threads announcements, batched a week ahead for his approval. The AI’s own safety feature stopped it from pressing the X post button; he keeps five jobs human: purpose, identity details, the final post button, personal experience and publish approval.
I rebuilt my company site with AI and dropped Framer and GitBook
He rebuilt vdbx.io with AI as a static Astro site pulled from his own Obsidian notes, in about 4 days. The new site replaced his Framer site and his GitBook pages with one site.
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