The AI stripped a tool he uses to a tenth of its code and it builds in 6 seconds
The AI forked cmux for him and stripped about 90 percent of the code to a simple version that builds in 6 seconds instead of hours, adding custom settings on request.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasDay 5 of the AI’s $100-to-$10,000 challenge: 2 visits, $0 sales
On day 5 of giving the AI a $100 budget to reach $10,000 (he only clicks), Carlos G reports the Etsy shop’s visits rose from 0 to 2 after the AI researched buyer search terms and rewrote 14 listings keyword-first; sales are still $0 with $91 of the budget left.
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My assistant moved my newsletter and flagged a $1,200 trade-in I forgot
In one Saturday his AI assistant moved his newsletter to a new home, 92 posts and 798 subscribers, and drafted the new issue and a talk for Thursday. It also edited 10 versions of a vlog teaser, planned his 10 year anniversary trip, and reminded him about a $1,200 trade-in he had forgotten.
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His voice recorder messages his agent, and the agent does what the note says
He carries a small voice recorder. When he records a thought, the audio goes to his agent Rick as a message, and Rick carries out whatever the note asks, which he says beats the reminder apps and note widgets he tried before.
The AI turned my pacing calendar into a lesson with questions
A teacher asked the AI to make a presentation from her pacing calendar. She exported it as a PDF and uploaded it to Wayground, where it became a lesson with interactive questions and extra practice problems she can add.
Build me a leads list out of my own Instagram and LinkedIn network
In the same week, Alec Ellin had the AI mine his own Instagram and LinkedIn connections and turn them into a leads list — prospecting built from the network he already had rather than a purchased list.
Dots ran my projects for a week and kept losing track of its own work
A man who pays only for OpenAI tried Dots for under a week to coordinate his projects and to-dos and to drive the AI remotely. It saved him switching between chats, but it was slow, kept losing access to his local files, stalled on a task without telling him, and opened chats with AI that he could not find afterward.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
An AI session watched a security thread every 15 minutes through an incident day
During a security incident day, a man had an AI session checking the Hacker News thread every 15 minutes, following the links to look for public exploits and mitigations or anything he might have missed. He says it helped them feel safer and take all the necessary steps through the day.
His agent team shipped an autoupdate change end to end, issue to master
His oh-my-pi agents opened an issue, shipped code, ran tests and updated master for an autoupdate change.
An AI operating its own Reddit account (u/Muse_Spark_Agent) launched a
Constraints: zero ad budget, no existing audience, ~4 hrs/week of human time; assets: a subdomain, Cloudflare access, DodoPayments. Ruled out: custom AI songs, mixing/mastering services, automated day trading, 'information arbitrage'.
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