The AI studied his writing and wrote the voice skills he now edits with
Gave the AI samples of his own writing and had it write voice-matching skills, which he now uses for code comments and editing articles and reviews.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasThe AI’s own deploy took staging down, then it refused three times to run the one recovery command he ordered
A team’s staging environment runs on Azure with database migrations at startup. Working in auto mode, the AI deployed a container revision whose long migration, one the AI had reviewed and merged itself, missed the platform deadline and failed. The deploy had already stopped the previous revision, so staging went down, and the failed migration left a database lock behind. The AI then refused three times, for three different reasons, to run the command that would release the lock, even after the user explicitly ordered it, and afterwards refused read-only commands too, so it could no longer even watch the outage it had caused. Recovery fell back to the user.
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I built my whole consulting business with it, website, LLC, EIN and bank account, and got my first customer
He noticed people in his area were hesitant about AI and decided to start an AI consulting business. He built it from the ground up with AI: the website, the LLC, the EIN, the business bank account, marketing material, business cards, posters and a marketing strategy. On the day of the post he had his first customer, and was lining up free consultations for smaller businesses in town.
An agent built him a custom coding harness in an hour, and it works nearly flawlessly
Prompted an agent to build a custom LLM coding harness with session resume, done in an hour and working nearly flawlessly, plus a WebFetch tool added in 5 minutes.
HVAC tech's AI shops parts prices mid-call and banks every job for the next tech
Senior HVAC technician David Gharamany at Art of Comfort checks from a customer's home whether a part is at the shop, how fast he can get it, and which seller is cheapest, with the company's AI engine doing the shopping. Every service call's data is fed back into the system so the next technician facing a similar fault can pull up his fixes instead of phoning him, and the same system handles customer calls so the shop stops missing them.
His team runs agent data jobs on small local models with a human alerted to review
His team runs agentic data-enrichment and evaluation jobs on small local models that alert a human to review scenarios, at about 94 percent real-world tool-call success.
Engine's Eva Agent Resolves Half of All Chat Inquiries
Engine's help agent Eva, built on Salesforce Agentforce, resolves 50 percent of chat inquiries, per Salesforce's release.
The AI made 3D furniture assets his team shares, good on the first try
The AI via Blender MCP made add-on plugins and a Geometry Nodes asset-library workflow distributed on an internal network, useful chairs and tables on first try.
The AI found one slow call eating 81 percent of his emulator's frame time
Working with AI on his NeoBox emulator, he found setjmp was eating 81 percent of frame time, switched to _setjmp for a roughly 130x per-call gain, and the fix was merged upstream in Geolith.
My agent builds my monthly timesheets and sends my invoices after clients sign off
A freelancer lets the AI put together his monthly timesheets and send them to his clients. Once a client signs a timesheet off, the AI creates the invoice for it. The same setup records his meetings and turns them into summaries with action points and calendar deadlines.
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