The AI checked 5 years of our JIRA bugs in under 30 minutes
Going through five years of his team's JIRA bugs looking for patterns would have taken him about two weeks. The AI did the analysis and collation in under 30 minutes.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,668 ideasTwo days in, the AI running my sites has done a week or two of work
He is letting the AI run his websites, with him watching over it. Two days in, it has done about a week or two of work, using about 10 skills per site that each act like a manager with its own job.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
An LLM did his 5-year-waiting project in 36 hours, ready to deploy
An LLM crunched for 36 hours on a project he had wanted for 5 years; checked and ready to deploy, work he estimates would have taken him about 9 months.
A software company ported 65 open-source projects with AI and finished them
Akka ported 65 OSS projects with AI, finished ports.
The AI cleaned up my exported bookkeeping in 30 minutes
He exported all his bookkeeping to text and let the AI take care of it. Thirty minutes later it was in better shape than ever.
Check every new chapter against my series bible, daily
Author educator Christopher Kokoski set up a test the AI with a series bible in Google Drive for a mystery series (hero Rudy Relish: seven hard rules including a bad left knee, never touches a gun, no ketchup on the cart). He added the first three chapters of book four and had the AI check each against the bible and all other pages, on a daily scheduled check. Chapters 1-2 were clean; in chapter 3 the AI caught every one of several mistakes he had planted, including one he considered an unfair plant. (Test manuscript on a fresh account, run for a week.)
Agents read 206 of my AI sessions and found 223 failures
Haiku 5.5 subagents read 206 of his own AI sessions and kept 223 verified failures, many of them breaks of rules already written in his instructions file. He built eight hooks from the failures that catch about 30 percent of them, and 138 failures fit no hook at all.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI runs my returns and cancellations chats and paperwork for me
He has the AI run the live chats and online paperwork for his returns, cancellations and similar chores. He calls it life-changing.
Tell me which deal is most at risk, using Salesforce and Jira together
Following up without restating context, CData's Dot took the five pipeline deals (three accounts), searched Jira for open issues per account, found none, and named the Targeted Therapy Corp renewal most at risk: past its close date, described as a cancelled project, at 10% probability. The post says the same answer by hand can take days of asking engineering and searching two systems.
His tiny software factory runs unsupervised: 5 minutes from a typed wish to a working feature
His miniature software factory runs unsupervised: he pressed Alt+N, typed make TTS streaming, and 5 minutes later his text-to-speech showed words at every pause instead of only at toggle.
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