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 · 1,695 ideasAstra and Opus checked his new technique, found the earlier work and ran the experiments
Handed code, data and a writeup to Astra and Opus 5.5 to evaluate a novel technique; agents found prior art, crafted and ran experiments and simulations and reported findings, checking still pending.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
His work pattern: LLMs test and rewrite legacy modules until users feel the speed
At work he prompts LLMs to write extensive tests for legacy modules, rewrite them cleanly, and pass the tests again; users report the software suddenly responsive in under a second and customers are happy.
I used AI in Word to sue my healthcare provider
Her healthcare provider texted her to press 1 to confirm an appointment, she drove 2 days to get there, and it turned out to be an error, with no apology. She used three AI tools, mostly the AI in Word, to sue the provider.
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.
Microsoft's Ask Microsoft Agent Expanded Across Ten Product Sites
Microsoft prototyped the Ask Microsoft web agent in an AI app Studio and went live in weeks. It moved beyond information retrieval into product evaluation and signups, then expanded across ten more product sites at two per week; customers using it visit more pages per session.
Agents redesigned his live blog, trained first not to make it look machine-made
Redesigned his own live blog using agents, conditioning them against stereotypical vibecoded design; it worked well and added wanted features and shortcodes.
Moved his 8 websites off paid hosting and cut the bill from over $1,300 a year to about $1 a month
The creator was paying over $1,300 a year to SiteGround and GoDaddy to keep 8 websites and apps online. The AI moved all 8 to free or near-free hosting, his whole Google bill is now about $1 a month, and the AI stays on as his site manager.
$1,300
AI runs large parts of his business, and he still catches its wrong product images
AI runs large swathes of his business operations, marketing and finance after a multi-year handoff; he still reviews some work for errors, including wrong product images returned by a photo workflow.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI cuts his videos by editing the subtitles, and the edit comes out right
The AI cuts his video in DaVinci Resolve by editing a subtitle export with IntelliScript; Resolve then produces the cut version; works well.
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