The AI built his courtroom video switcher app in 20 minutes
The AI in 20 minutes built him an Android app to find and control an ATEM Mini Pro over network, switch inputs, audio and fade, used for courtroom work.
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I asked the AI to debug my website widget. I fixed it myself.
He found a problem on his website with the embedded Cal.com widget he uses for people contacting him. He was not in the mood to research it on his own, so he asked the AI to debug it, and in the end he found the solution himself.
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GPT Work rebuilt a year of my missing bills and bank records
He spent a day redacting his own financial data by hand and feeding it to the AI. It rebuilt a year of bills and transaction records he had never written down or balanced.
Two models rebuilt a scrambled script engine that ended his captcha problem
The AI reconstructed a minified JS VM in Rust and the AI fixed the errors, giving a solver he plugged into his crawler that ended Google captchas.
The AI fixed the gapless playback on mp3s I ripped 20 years ago
A large part of his ripped CD collection had broken gapless playback. The AI looked through the mp3 files, found that a library program had added four frames of silence to each track, and removed exactly those four frames from every track, and playback is seamless again.
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.
Turned a whole book into a chapter-by-chapter podcast series with subagents handling
Author Matt Deitke fed an entire book to the AI and had it generate a chapter-by-chapter podcast website, with subagents handling chapters in parallel. The output was a finished multi-episode podcast series derived from the book.
A well-meaning automation nearly corrupted a spreadsheet
The review's lede lists 'one spreadsheet almost corrupted by a well-meaning automation' among the two-week test's incidents: three conference rooms booked, inbox triaged, and one spreadsheet nearly corrupted by an automation acting on her data.
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Found bookshelves matching room measurements and ordered them from Home Depot for
Jolenesugarbaker told the AI the measurements of her space — it found bookshelves that fit and ordered them from Home Depot, arriving the same day. Walmart and Amazon blocked the searches and lost the sale.
An agent proposed and profiled its own kernel optimisations to a 10x faster kernel
Agent autonomously proposed and tested CUDA kernel optimizations and profiled them with Nsight by itself, ending with a kernel an order of magnitude faster.
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