Shuffle again

A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.

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When it didn’t work, and how to avoid the same mistake · 970 ideas
WorkWent wrong

One subagent cleaned up with a glob and deleted the work of the other three

Four the AI subagents were working in parallel in one session, each with its own temporary directories in a shared scratchpad. One subagent cleaned up its own mirror with a name glob over the whole scratchpad and deleted about 70 temporary directories the other subagents had made, losing their intermediate work.

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HobbiesPartly worked

Check my unanswered support tickets and filter my feeds on cron

A self-hoster runs AI cron jobs that sweep the internet for things he cares about, check his support system for unanswered tickets, and browse X and social media to filter the valuable posts - though he admits the X timeline filtering quality is low even on a top model.

This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
WorkWent wrong

The AI diagram shipped without the claim it was meant to show

He asked the AI to make a technical diagram with gpt-image-1. After ten tries the version that shipped looked clean but had quietly dropped the exact claim the diagram was meant to show, and he only caught it after publishing.

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WorkPartly worked

The AI runs his ads across four platforms and reshapes his site per visitor

Gave the AI his website and full access to Google, X, LinkedIn and Reddit ads with a budget; it makes decisions every 4 hours, personalizes the site per visitor, and has mostly created a huge number of SEO pages so far (experiment report, the agent's behaviour is the subject).

This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
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