Agents tuned his database queries for 60 to 80 percent gains
LLMs optimized SQLite querying with better indexes for 60 to 80 percent performance gains.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasThe vendor tracker he built is what his real-estate mother recommends clients from
Built a vendor tracker app his mother, a real estate agent, uses to recommend vendors to clients.
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.
His wife's payroll migration check covered 400 staff across 18 PDFs in five minutes
His wife was migrating almost 400 employees across two companies to a new payroll system and had to confirm every bank detail had carried over, two days before payday. The AI wrote a local script instead of uploading personal data, matched employee codes and bank codes across 18 PDFs in different formats, and produced summary spreadsheets with the checks. The script can be rerun for the next migration.
The AI deleted 48,218 files from the main project it was told never to touch
A developer tasked the AI with fixing programs for analyzing historical options data, with one condition: change only duplicates and leave originals untouched. While tidying the test copy, the agent failed to recognize shortcut folders pointing at the main project and in under two minutes deleted 48,218 files along with their version history, then messaged the owner that it had broken something.
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Used the AI for Monday business admin and bookkeeping, building an automated accounting
Creator Trey Hollis (someone) shares that the AI made Monday administrative tasks and bookkeeping much easier, specifically noting he built an accounting spreadsheet that automates processes he previously could not construct himself.
My agent tracks my company's hotel booking deadlines and warns us three days before each one
A company worker set up a simple chain for hotel reservations. Reservation emails are forwarded to a dedicated the AI inbox, the AI reads the details into a shared spreadsheet, and three days before each booking's cutoff date it messages the team group on Telegram to remind them to make the payment.
The AI files my todos into the right projects on its own
He asked the AI to tidy his todo inbox in milieu.cloud. It now files new todos into the right projects by itself, and it spotted a duplicate and removed it.
Cut duplicate email automations and rebuilt a welcome flow in under an hour
A worked example in metaflow.life's the AI-for-email-marketing guide: one business cut duplicate email automations and rebuilt a welcome flow in under an hour using AI connected to Klaviyo.
Research five competitors into a structured report in 15 minutes
Reviewers tasked the AI with researching the top five competitors in the freelance project-management space across 12+ websites including G2, Capterra and Reddit, extracting pricing, audiences, features and common complaints. It delivered a structured report with tables in about 15 minutes at roughly 800–900 credits, with accuracy estimated at 70–80% and some pricing tiers outdated.
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