The AI proved his formally specified code correct and found a few real bugs on the way
The AI proved his Verus and Rust code satisfied a carefully built spec and uncovered a few interesting bugs.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasMy agent scrapes 50 prospects a day and reaches out to 25 of them
A small business owner gives the AI access to his email accounts and phone lines, with a Notion table as its memory. Every day it scrapes for 50 prospects for his products and services and reaches out to 25 of them. He also sells parts of the same setup to his own clients.
The AI fills in the month's timesheet from the work people actually did
Consultants at the same co-op connect the AI to their calendar, GitHub and ticket tool. The AI works out how their time split across projects, fills in the timesheet day by day with a reason for each day, and each person checks it and approves it before it is saved in Salesforce.
I built a live web app for a local business in one sitting
She pulled 50 local business leads for $0.44 and used AI to pick the ones with good reviews and a weak web presence. Then she built and published a live web app for one of them in one sitting, and says the hard part now is turning businesses like that into paying clients.
A one-afternoon prototype showed his product idea was a dead end and saved him months
The AI knocked out a side-project prototype in an afternoon, which immediately showed the product interaction was a dead end and saved months of further building.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI generated the board files for two circuit boards, and both boards work
Made 2 PCBs co-working with AI: The AI generated KiCad sources from shared netlist, read specs, set constraints; both boards made via PCBWay and both work.
Globo Agents Review Creative Advertising Material 3x Faster
Brazilian media group Globo uses AI Enterprise agents to review creative advertising material. The review process now runs three times faster.
I built my whole consulting business with it, website, LLC, EIN and bank account, and got my first customer
He noticed people in his area were hesitant about AI and decided to start an AI consulting business. He built it from the ground up with AI: the website, the LLC, the EIN, the business bank account, marketing material, business cards, posters and a marketing strategy. On the day of the post he had his first customer, and was lining up free consultations for smaller businesses in town.
One founder runs his whole company through AI sessions
He is the sole founder of BlueVeta, where a customer uploads one product photo and gets back a full marketing campaign for 20 platforms. Every part of the company runs as its own AI session, the sessions message each other and share docs, and nothing is built, deployed or spent without his OK first. The company has real paying customers through Stripe, and the AI does about 75 percent of the work in each customer pack.
A team of agents made 300 commits and burned his weekly limit in 2.5 days
A team of Opus 5.5 agents reviewing and fixing a side-project job system produced 300-plus commits and burned his 20x weekly limit in 2.5 days.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
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