His agent, mid-task on something else, found a decade-old security hole everyone missed
His AI agent, while working on an unrelated task, discovered a decade-old security oversight in a file that tests and security scans had passed for years.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasA support bot closed my ticket because it misread my doubled order
His order was doubled, and the company support bot closed his ticket. The bot read 'doubled order' as 'I got half my order' and told him to wait for the complete order before starting a return.
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After Airbnb took over $12,000 in fees in 6 months, the AI built his own booking site for his 5 rentals
Airbnb raised its cut from 3 percent to 15.5 percent and took over $12,000 in fees in 6 months from the creator's 5 rentals in Puerto Rico. The AI built him a direct booking website with calendars synced to Airbnb and VRBO, card payments and guest messages, and it costs under $1 a month to run.
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Created a Marketplace listing via Messenger chat and confirmed the AI remembered his
A 29-year-old on Facebook demoed the AI inside a Messenger chat two days after his birthday: he typed requests to create a Facebook Marketplace listing and verified that the AI remembered his standing preference to keep his home address out of listings.
The AI built the focus app he now uses every day to get good work done
Got the AI to build a focus app for his Mac; he uses it daily and says he does more good work with it.
Run my whole job search and land me two offers
A software engineer delegated job-search operations to his personal AI agent running the career-ops system as a command center, under a hard visa-sponsorship deadline. Over eight weeks it evaluated roles, tailored CVs, tracked 21 serious applications and prepared interviews, ending in 7 interview processes, 2 offers and an accepted role in Amsterdam.
Warn me the new flight clashes with a recording that is only in Slack
Every CEO Dan Shipper was changing a flight out of San Francisco with his Dot when the agent interrupted its own flight research with a warning: the option might overlap with head of video Randy Counsman's Wednesday morning recording. There was no such recording on Shipper's calendar — the Dot had read a Slack discussion he had never seen, clocked the proposed schedule, and connected it to the flight he was about to pick.
The AI found all my invoices and sent them to my accountant
He got the AI to hunt down all his various invoices and forward them to his accountant. It took a pile of dull admin off his plate.
His company's agent factory handles the chore tickets and merges a third of the pull requests
His company runs an agentic software factory handling low-level chore tickets and merging about a third of their PRs, with no slop downtime incident he is aware of.
My shop did not exist when my train left. It was online when I arrived.
At the start of a 2 hour 7 minute TGV ride from Paris to Valence, his shop did not exist. Talking with AI, connected through a new MCP link and without opening the WiziShop admin once, the shop was online by the time he arrived.
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