My AI Agent Has Been Running 24/7 for 2 Weeks — Here's What It Actually Did

Two weeks ago, I posted about setting up an AI agent on my Mac Mini . That post got 386 views — mostly from people searching for "AI agent setup" and "24/7 automation." But the real question everyone had was: does it actually DO anything useful? Here's my honest report after letting an AI agent run my side projects for two weeks straight. What I Asked It To Do The setup was ambitious. I gave the agent access to: Content creation — write Dev.to articles, publish Gumroad products, build itch.io games Community engagement — comment on posts, respond to feedback, join discussions Monitoring — watch Gmail for important emails, track analytics, check deployment status Game development — build Somnia, a cozy adventure game, using Godot 4 The agent ran on cron jobs — every 2 hours for active projects, every 6 hours for monitoring. It could spawn sub-agents for parallel work. In theory, I'd wake up to progress. In practice... it was more complicated. What Actually Worked Content Pipeline: Quant