The AI rescued his blog from a dead platform into a static site, every page
The AI took his MediaWiki blog and rendered all pages into a static site after the PHP apps were shut down.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,665 ideasThe AI, asked to optimize step B, optimized step E until stopped
The AI asked to optimize and benchmark step B of a pipeline also benchmarked the whole pipeline and optimized step E unasked, until he stopped it.
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Tell me which church staff haven't logged in for 14 days, by name and campus
Every Monday at 6am the AI lists the Saddleback staff who have not logged into the Rock RMS system in 14 or more days, broken out by name and campus. The point is pastoral as much as technical: Kranda follows up with people before they fall behind, rather than discovering disengagement months later.
The AI converted several thousand firewall rules into the global rulebase
Had the AI convert several thousand firewall rules to FortiManager global rules.
Agent ran cold spray simulations and chose next runs
An AI powered agent ran OpenFOAM cold spray simulations without a person doing each manual step. It read deposit results, spotted failed runs from solver logs, and decided the next simulation, with an animation made for each run.
Build my advisory firm's portfolio-optimizer algorithm with AI agents
A portfolio advisory firm says the algorithm inside the Portfolio Optimizer on its website - built through multiple iterations with AI's agents for structuring equity portfolios - would not have been possible without them, and would have cost upwards of $100,000 to build the conventional way.
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Build and deploy a public status dashboard that updates itself
Amplifying.ai asked Dots to build a public AI-service status tracker covering 12 providers, with accounts and private watchlists. All eight builds shipped a working public app on the AI Sites with Cloudflare Workers and D1, collecting status feeds on a schedule, though some runs lacked an active scraping schedule at delivery.
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An agent ported his renderer to the new graphics API in 24 hours, live
Agent ported his hand-written WebGL renderer to WebGPU, deployed and live in 24 hours versus a 6 to 10 week human estimate.
The AI pulls reports out of dashboards that have no export and rolls them into one
His work runs on provider dashboards that offer no downloads, with a separate dashboard per location. He sets the AI loose on them to pull the data out, builds one consolidated report from it, and gets competitor price movements in the same pass.
Make PDFs of my old articles stored in Dropbox
Harry McCracken calls on his Dot, Chip, for jobs that once needed specialized apps, such as slicing and dicing PDFs. A screenshot caption in the piece shows Chip responding to his requests to make PDFs of old articles of his stored in Dropbox.
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