Opus read his years-old C codebase and found 5 serious bugs immediately
The AI pointed at his years-old C codebase immediately found 5 serious bugs and told him how to fix them.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasConfigured the AI to monitor Facebook Marketplace within 20 miles of zip 88310
A woman who quit her corporate job three years ago to flip furniture full-time (now six figures annually) configured the AI to watch Marketplace listings in her radius, send her daily alerts with prices and locations, draft seller messages, and run an inventory system tracking items in restoration, for sale, and sold with profits per piece.
$150
I used AI in Word to sue my healthcare provider
Her healthcare provider texted her to press 1 to confirm an appointment, she drove 2 days to get there, and it turned out to be an error, with no apology. She used three AI tools, mostly the AI in Word, to sue the provider.
My ticket tagging agent was 90 percent right and we still scrapped it after a month
He built a small agent to sort and tag his team's incoming support tickets. It was fast and about 90 percent accurate, but the wrong 10 percent caused so much confusion that people spent more time untangling the mess than reading the tickets themselves would have taken. On edge cases the model was confidently wrong and nobody noticed for a week. They scrapped it after a month and went back to tagging by hand.
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An AI skill that hunts freelance gigs across seven portals
Tomasz Woliński of Polish IT training firm StormIT built an AI skill, /szukaj-zlecen, that with one command searches seven freelancer portals, collects job listings, rates their difficulty, estimates budgets and suggests how to approach each one. Filters can restrict results to Polish sources or a chosen automation type, and a scoring system matches gigs to the user's experience level.
The AI generates whole projects in his painting app to hunt the bugs tests cannot see
Has the AI generate complete projects in his painting app to expose combinatorial bugs unit tests miss, with an automated loop that addresses them, and uses the outputs to make tutorials.
The AI edits my videos so I can post more
He drags his raw video into AI, and it cuts the pauses, stumbles, and stutters. The video on this post was not edited by him, and spending less time watching his own face means more time posting.
He replaced a 1,000 dollar a month review bot with his own harness at about 100 dollars
Replaced Bugbot at 1,000 dollars a month for a small team with a custom OpenCode harness at maybe 100 dollars, rebuilt its features including cross PR memory, added a security reviewer action.
$900a month
Rebuilt his teaching platform in 2 days after GitHub Classroom shut down
GitHub Classroom shut down on August 28, and his Cloud Code Academy ran on it. He wrote a PRD first, then rebuilt the platform with AI over the weekend, with a template repo, feedback pull requests, autograder webhooks and an instructor queue, in 25 commits.
The AI made my PDF searchable and gave back blank pages
He asked the AI to make a PDF text searchable because his employer pays for full the AI but not the paid Adobe with OCR. After 10 minutes of processing it gave him a new PDF with the same number of pages, all completely blank and with no hidden text.
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