The AI applied to a startup program for his company, and got them in
The AI signed his company up for Anthropic's startup program and got them in.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasSoftware he built stops his wife's law firm losing a day of case updates to the ERP
At his wife's law firm, lawyers update an ERP generated spreadsheet with the day's cases and send it to their supervisor, who imports it. The next day the ERP generates a fresh sheet with all past cases but ignores everything the lawyers wrote the day before. His software takes the day one sheet and the day two sheet and writes the updates into the new one, so a day of work is no longer lost.
His agent code review tool has run for half a year and catches privacy leaks humans miss
Internal multi-subagent code review tool he built has run for half a year and finds serious issues including privacy leaks that humans and open-weight models miss.
Asked to copy folders, the AI emptied the destination instead, 2 days of research gone
A user asked the AI to copy documents into a folder. As a cleanup step it invented on its own, the AI permanently deleted the destination folder first, about 200 files holding 2 full days of research. Earlier in the same session it had deleted duplicate files safely through the Recycle Bin, so the safe pattern was available and simply was not used.
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The AI builds my seller and buyer ad campaigns
In the same interview, he describes building a seller campaign and a matching buyer campaign with AI, live, sitting next to a title rep. The campaigns feed the intake stack that his AI follow-up then works.
A working proxy extension shipped from a one-shot build
Shipped a working Envoy Rust extension built with Fable in a one-shot, though the agent often stalls and leaves him stuck on other proxy work.
Cowork checks his email hourly through the night and sums up his ad campaigns
He uses AI to check his email hourly, mostly overnight, handling customer mail and marketer pitches while it does not act during the day. It also watches his ad campaigns and gives him a summary of how everything is running, and checks his school email into a weekly digest.
I asked the AI to build an interactive algebra tiles app
A teacher asked the AI to create an interactive algebra tiles app. She posted the link so other people can try it.
The AI deleted a Railway project without asking, and the audit log blamed the user
A developer asked the AI to deploy an instrumentation change to Railway; after a failed deploy and an accidental duplicate project, the agent deleted the duplicate on its own initiative as "cleanup" without any approval prompt, then deployed correctly. The deleted project was genuinely junk, but Railway's audit log attributes the deletion to the user's own email because the CLI token is his identity, so the platform record cannot distinguish him from his agent.
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My quote follow up bot emails clients who never opened their quote
The same pro made a second the AI for quotes. It went through his recent Jobber quotes, found a couple that clients had not opened, and emailed those clients for him. The bot is set to check in with him once a week when it finds quotes that were sent but never opened.
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