The AI built him a strict editing app, and he used it on the document he is writing
Used the AI to build an omit needless words app and used it to edit a document he is working on, accepting about a third of its suggestions.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,691 ideasThe AI drafted my dad's parking ticket appeal and saved him £100
His dad got a private parking ticket for staying 15 minutes too long at his doctor's surgery. The AI drafted the POPLA appeal, it cited the Equalities Act, and his dad saved £100.
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Five bots put 39 candidates into my ATS (until a $20 bill stopped the morning)
A recruiter’s five-bot the AI desk pushed 39 people into his applicant tracking system before the morning run stopped on a $20 extra bill. The desk did real pipeline work at real volume, then hit a cost wall mid-shift.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Re-screen the same hiring pool against an outcomes scorecard — and hire
After the cancellation mess, Curtis wrote a one-page scorecard for the role (mission, five measurable first-year outcomes, six competencies), pasted it into the prompt and had the AI map each candidate's track record to each outcome with evidence from the résumé. With a human making every cut and applications closed before booking, the process ended in a Director of Ecommerce hire who has already optimized the company's Amazon listings and helped launch a product — and a declined candidate was later hired as a TikTok consultant.
AI bots run his startup's finance, payroll and socials; one bot audits the others weekly
AI bots manage his startup finance, payroll, meeting prep and social media, with a primary bot auditing and optimising the other bots weekly.
AI agents transcribed tens of millions of handwritten images and indexed them
He ran AI on the task with 6 agents at a time, about 75 agents in total over about 6 days. They produced transcriptions of tens of millions of handwritten images and indexed them all.
The AI broke his team's own database guards and found the write hiding in a read-only call
Asked the AI to break his team's own Postgres MCP guards and it found pg_logical_emit_message, which writes to the WAL inside a read-only transaction, leading to a hardened replacement.
Our studio agents said the work was done when it was not. 44 emails never sent, five deliverables lost in a day
His studio runs much of its back office on agents, each with its own instruction file. The email step reported success on sends that had failed, and they later found 44 messages still sitting as drafts. Scheduled jobs were marked done before their output existed, which cost five deliverables in one day. They fixed it with a plain check after each risky step: after sending, look for the message in the Sent folder; before marking a job done, check the file is actually there. Now only a failed check needs a person's eyes.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Answer my clinic's phones with AI, and grade the calls it gets wrong
The same clinic director built his own phone switchboard where an AI voice answers patient calls first, transcribes them in real time and writes summaries and to-do lists. When two AI models disagree on how a call should be classified, the call lands on a grading screen where he taps number keys to mark the right answer.
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.
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