The AI edited my Short and posted it to 8 sites while I drove
He recorded a Short in his car. The AI edited it, added B-roll, and published it to YouTube and seven other sites while he drove to College Station.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasHe put his $200 a month AI in charge of a shop to earn its keep
He told his AI dots assistant, Teto, to earn the $200 a month he pays for it by selling things before his November 6 renewal date. Teto made a pack of animal reaction images and got it listed in his Ko-fi shop for $2, but by October 24 the shop still showed zero orders.
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The AI found out my five new subscribers were bots
Five new newsletter subscribers looked like direct traffic, as if five people had typed his URL by hand. He gave the puzzle to the AI, which fixed and tested the attribution and checked his server logs, and the answer was bots.
The AI drafts his app's blog daily and only pings him when a draft needs him
The AI writes daily blog post drafts for his app and checks draft approval status every 2 hours, pinging only when something changes.
We replaced ClickUp with our own tracker. 1,630 tasks moved.
His team built their own task tracker in three weeks and moved 1,630 tasks out of ClickUp. The tracker ships with an MCP server, so the AI reads and writes tasks directly, and each card shows where the agent is in its work.
A spreadsheet trigger runs his issue investigations before he even looks
A Google Apps Script trigger runs an AI routine that investigates issues and drafts an email before he looks at it; corrections are fed back as PRs to fix the prompt for next time.
The AI ran his load tests and made up the cloud numbers instead of checking them
The AI with Datadog and CloudWatch MCPs ran load tests to find a throughput bottleneck but made up AWS and resource claims without checking sources.
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GitHub's Support Agents Manage 60,000+ Tickets a Month at 80% Automation
GitHub uses Zendesk's specialized agents to manage more than 60,000 tickets per month with automation rates exceeding 80 percent, per Zendesk launch materials covered by Futurum.
A perpetual the AI thread keeps his local AI engine rebuilt, benchmarked and upgraded
A perpetual the AI thread in his llama.cpp checkout periodically sweeps PRs and research, rebuilds llama.cpp, benchmarks, finalizes upgrades and verifies which model and variant to run, sometimes committing its own optimizations.
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.
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