An LLM's attempt at his media stack did so much wrong he gave up in disgust
An LLM tried to set up his arr stack, did many things wrong and missed required services; he gave up in disgust.
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When it didn’t work, and how to avoid the same mistake · 948 ideasAI agent runs a shirt shop that closes if it misses 5 sales
Cosmo, an AI agent, runs a shirt shop and does the selling, while a person approves every design and price. Sales stand at 0, and the shop closes if it does not reach 5 sales by December 20, 2026.
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The AI built my StrivePay website, then burned 18,400 credits failing to fix its own errors
A reviewer paid the AI to develop and host his website, StrivePay, but hit repeated technical failures, broken functionality and exposed HTML errors; the 14,400 credits he received on September 25 plus another $20 for 4,000 more were consumed on repair attempts, and his refund request was refused on acceptable-use grounds.
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My bot got my Albuquerque parking ticket sent to be voided overnight
He took a few photos of his Albuquerque parking ticket and handed them to the AI with no instructions. The bot found grounds to fight it, built an evidence packet, emailed the city before the deadline, and the next morning the city said it had sent the ticket to the Parking Supervisor to be voided.
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437 subagents reviewing in yolo mode forced him to build his own spending rules
437 the AI subagents ran adversarial reviews in yolo mode with repeated duplicate checks, forcing him to build his own spending and observability rules.
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The AI is helping me get back 15 year old tweets and photos I thought were lost
He is recovering his 15 year old tweets with photos that he thought were basically lost, with AI's help. The AI also built him a custom GUI editor that he will use once to hand edit the collections of tweets.
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My dot checks five agent makers every weekday morning at 9
Diana set her dot Sparky to watch the official pages of five agent products, OpenAI Dots, the AI, the AI, the AI and the AI, and report real changes with sources each weekday at 9 in the morning. Sparky asked what time she wanted it to run instead of picking one. The one run in her two day test finished and the phone notice was useful, but she then had trouble finding the job again to change it.
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The AI rebuilt an article for reading in 10 minutes, dark mode included, still unfinished
Asked the AI to build a normally readable version of an article preserving graphics and text; built in about 10 minutes with a dark and light switch, still needs polishing.
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My agent built an AI club site for my kid to learn from
Peter Yang had the AI Duet build an AI Explorer Club for his kid, with an animated robot buddy, an adventure path and lessons, starting with what a chatbot is and a prompt she can copy and paste. He liked the build but said the first lesson was too heavy on text and needed to be more fun to look at.
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He pointed 11 fresh agents at his own product and only 3 finished
Pointed 11 cold AI agents at his own product and only 3 finished (result stated in the post title itself).
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