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.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasThe AI pulled my old Athens trip from Gmail and emailed for a new offer
He asked the AI to get an offer for last year's Athens trip so he could compare prices and book again this year. Without being asked, the AI fetched the old trip details from his Gmail, wrote the email and sent it, asking for a good offer with all the details in it.
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Opencode mostly wrote a fix script for journald logs going missing
On machines that regenerate their machine ID at every boot, journalctl reported no journal files even though logs existed, because journald and journalctl end up looking in different directories. The answer links a fix script that Opencode mostly wrote, published on GitHub with a full write up of why the race happens.
My AI posts to 7 channels while I sleep
He connects an AI to his posting app with one key. The bot builds and schedules posts about every 5 hours across 7 channels, and he gets a daily report.
Port 430,000 lines of TypeScript to Rust with coding agents
GitHub engineer Stephen Toub's September 16, 2026 account describes porting the AI runtime from TypeScript to Rust mostly with AI coding agents: 832,378 lines of production Rust plus 468,689 lines of tests across 128 merged pull requests in about fourteen and a half weeks. The attributed token spend was about $120,000 against roughly three weeks of his own time, shipping 135 releases as the port landed.
Every Monday my agent scans my YouTube comments and drafts replies for me to approve
Every Monday the AI scans one of his YouTube channels for new comments and drafts replies to them. He reads the drafts, gives the go ahead, and the AI posts them with its browser. Nothing goes up without his review.
The 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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The AI rebuilt the Jupyter kernel I use every day
He used Deno's Jupyter kernel all the time for exploring TypeScript libraries and automations, and was going to miss it. He pointed the AI at the problem and the result is cdp-kernel, Deno's Jupyter kernel extracted to run notebooks on any V8 runtime, now on GitHub.
Ran hiring and sales ops for her design business: drafted LinkedIn job
Keerthi Jeethuri, a Seattle-based designer and TEDx speaker (19.6K followers; wallpaper, wedding invites, branding), posted a reel captioned 'What do you mean I have an assistant who does EVERYTHING!!!! someone someone.' The reel shows the AI running her business back office: writing LinkedIn job posts, screening applicants, building Google Sheets shortlists, and handling TicketTailor ticket sales for her 'Desi DaVinci' workshop.
My AI bought and set up 20 cold email accounts in 30 minutes
He told his AI to come back with 20 cold email accounts paid for, set up and warming up. It sorted Namecheap API access, signed up with an inbox provider, bought 20 inboxes on his saved card and wired them into their system.
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