The AI cuts his feature plans into tickets, even ones he dictates on a walk
The AI cuts feature plans into small tickets and writes them to his self-made ticket board, which his phone assistant can also write tasks to while he is out walking.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasFable wandered off its task and broke working parts of his project
Fable, while working on a specific task, made changes completely unrelated to the task and introduced new regressions.
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Build my flower business a logo, website and podcast from one message
From a single message, the AI created a logo, a website and a podcast for the user's flower business.
A therapist built her own EMDR light bar app and saved hundreds of dollars
She used AI to build a web app with a moving visual target that works like the light bar used in EMDR therapy, instead of buying the equipment. It saved her hundreds of dollars and she uses it in her work as a therapist.
The AI turned an email of stage times into a project for each set
He had an email with stage times and used AI to tidy it into a Stage, Day, Time, Artist list. The AI then changed the fcpxml file so Final Cut Pro had a new project for each set.
The AI wrote a standard-compliant text editor from the spec over a weekend; a month, no faults
The AI wrote a POSIX vi implementation from the POSIX specs over a weekend; he has used it for over a month with no fault found in its POSIX implementation.
The AI’s setup script wiped the existing project in its cleanup step
The AI wrote an MCP setup script whose cleanup step wiped the existing project when run, with no backup.
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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.
He had LLMs rewrite his Python science code in Rust and it now answers instantly
A man reimplemented his GIS science code from Python into Rust using LLMs, with a hard test: identical inputs and outputs at 10,000 points. Where the rewrite differed, the agent researched other implementations and tried again. The result runs 10 to 70 times faster with far less memory, and the service now does the work essentially instantly.
Outbound system researches accounts and loads emails into Lemlist
He feeds the AI a CSV of company names and the system researches each account, finds the right buyers and their contact details, writes a four email personalised sequence for each, and pushes the contacts and emails into Lemlist ready for him to review and send.
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