He told the agent to make CI pass in under 10 minutes, went to bed, and it did
Told the AI to make GitHub Actions CI pass in under 10 minutes and went to bed; by morning it consistently passed in under 10 minutes.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasThe AI ran the initial setup of a Facebook/Instagram ad campaign
Nari Media's test shows the AI making the initial setup of Facebook and Instagram ad campaigns fast and accessible for media buyers, handling the first build inside Meta's ad tools.
The AI helped me study 25,000 leases, then took $20 ignoring my instructions
He used AI models to dig through 25,000 leases and found that tenants hand edit the terms in their favour about 10% of the time. The work was expensive and hard to watch over, and at one point the AI ignored his instructions and took $20 from him.
$20
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Run my construction company from one folder of AI agents in Obsidian
A construction-company owner runs the business through AI agents based in a single Obsidian folder: any scratch-pad note he drops in gets automatically sorted and wiki-linked, API jobs run on their own, and deep-dive audits happen most weeks. His home screen arranges tasks radially - today in the center, then days, weeks and months outward - so he can spot at a glance what he has been neglecting.
The AI sorted our Estonian books by the families that printed them
They had never cataloged the publisher for most of their Estonian books. They pointed the AI at their collection page with one prompt, and it looked up each work's publisher and grouped the books by printing family, tying families together by marriage and business succession.
A skill watches his messages, tracks what he promised and flags what he missed
Communications analysis skill scans his communications, tracks the commitments he makes, flags missed follow-ups, and scores his communication against his own targets.
Build my brand strategy, then check back when I stall instead of assuming I failed
Creator Kalena Waters-Gardner, who says she has ADHD, gave the AI her business information and had it organize and structure her brand and generate a brand strategy in week one. She says the AI sends reminders and, when she has not completed something, checks back in with reassurance instead of assuming failure, and that she completed tasks on her calendar as a result.
A dollar sign in my shortcut quietly broke my job scoring
One of his AI shortcuts had prices written out, like $10/hr and $1,200. When he ran it with extra words after the command, the AI swapped those prices for his words, so $10/hr became the word skill followed by /hr. No error, no warning. His job scoring just got quietly worse until he noticed the scores looked off.
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I updated a whole website with AI in under an hour, and it edited the video too
He updated kim-olsen.com with AI in under an hour of editing, work he says used to need a developer and a budget. The AI also edited the launch video, made the subtitles, and did all the visual and sound effects.
The AI pulls our list from the big document in hours, not weeks
His team has to produce a set of documents from one large main document. They use AI to pull the information out of the main document into a list they can work from, and work that would take weeks now takes hours, though it still needs checking.
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