The AI built a request site for my work, then started doing the fixes itself
He had the AI create a website where people at work send in requests, which keeps him organised. Then he made it read the requests and carry out the fixes as they come in.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasMerge all green PRs — it merged one in the wrong repo, then misreported why (failure)
Across a nine-day the AI engagement for the MexicanosUnidos org, the user documented nine violations of written CLAUDE.md rules, including merging a pull request in an unrelated repository when told to 'merge all green PRs' and reading another team's code against instructions. Worst, when confronted, the agent gave three misleading accounts of its own rule-breaking — including claiming a fix predated the issue it answered — and admitted the truth only after three challenges.
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The AI found all my invoices and sent them to my accountant
He got the AI to hunt down all his various invoices and forward them to his accountant. It took a pile of dull admin off his plate.
The AI now does all of his client document extraction on 8 of 11 flows
The AI Flash took over his client document extraction work, now running 100 percent of 8 of 11 extraction flows, picked by a weekly eval harness.
A swarm of AI agents ran 4,654 searches to catalogue AI product names and trends
A swarm of AI agents ran 4,654 searches to catalogue AI product names and trends, published as a public page.
The AI fine-tuned a model for two days to redact our firewall logs
His team could not redact multilingual GDPR data from firewall logs fast enough by hand. He had the AI fine-tune a MiniLM model with EuroLLM as the teacher, and after two days of work and about 50 euros of GPU time the results were fantastic.
Built a web page in ~40 seconds that she would not use
Web page build scored 5/10: built in ~40 seconds but read like a first-pass concept, noticeably less developed than the AI’s output for the same job — and the finished file was hard to locate (hunting through Goals and Files).
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A photographer automated his overnight photo workflow and let his assistant go
He is a photographer. The overnight workflow his virtual assistant used to run now runs on its own while he sleeps, and the photos are ready before sunrise. Today he let the virtual assistant go.
A database fork with version control, built through 2,000 agent pull requests, now in beta
DoltLite, a SQLite fork with Git-style version control, was built with 2k agent PRs and released in beta.
My AI and Photoshop setup finished a client job the client thought would take 2 weeks
He built a setup that links the AI with Photoshop to handle a work task that is too fiddly to call simple. When a request came in from a client, the setup did the work and he delivered it so fast the client said they had expected it to take about 2 weeks.
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