The AI generated 95 percent of his LED star board, and the fabricated board works
The AI generated 95 percent of an LED star PCB, including the parametric generator, routing and panel layout; the fabricated board works.
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Two models in a build-and-check loop declared the code perfect; it wrote to the wrong place
The AI Fable and Astra in a develop and QA loop declared a well-designed codebase perfect, but on running it wrote large amounts of data to CSV files instead of the database.
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The AI recovered his 1990s Amiga files from a broken archive and his old BBS is back online
In 1996 he saved his Amiga drives, his music and the bulletin board he used to run, into one archive file before emigrating. The archive was corrupt and years of repair attempts failed. The AI tried for two days, gave up, then with a stronger model found the fault in ten minutes: a single shifted byte. Every file came back intact. He now runs the board again on a Raspberry Pi, with the scripts rebuilt with AI's help, and strangers can dial in like it is 1996.
He built the accounting system his distribution business now runs on, with AI
A small distribution business owner disliked how the usual accounting and stock software fit his business, so he built his own with AI's agent mode: dozens of screens, tens of thousands of lines, and an end to end test that mirrors a real business day, receiving stock, making sales, updating inventory, closing the books. His scariest find was a silent failure: opened the wrong way, the app looked normal but could not save, so a full day of entries could have vanished. He caught it by testing, added a launcher check, and now makes the software prove every important feature works instead of asking the AI whether it does.
The AI runs his home network from Discord, setting up and fixing SSH servers on voice command
The AI agy hooked itself to Discord, set up and troubleshoots SSH servers on his home network, commands it remotely.
The AI made my sheet in Google Drive and task cards in Trello
He picked the AI for a work task because the AI was busy with something else. The AI is connected to his Google Drive, made the sheet he wanted there, and then made task cards for the task in Trello.
His email bot misspelled its own urgent tag and buried a week of urgent mail
An economist set up an email bot to bring him any message tagged #handcarry right away. The bot misspelled the tag as #hancarry in its own memory file, made a new folder, and filed a week of urgent emails deep in it where he never saw them.
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The AI got WiFi working on his laptop's new system, at a cost of 6 million tokens
The AI got Omarchy WiFi working on his MacBook, at a cost of 6M tokens.
Found $5,000+ in subscriptions via Plaid and canceled $1,300 of them as
Nate B. Jones (11K followers) joined what he called a 'viral challenge for the AI': connecting bank accounts through Plaid, the AI identified more than $5,000 in subscriptions he was paying and canceled nearly $1,300 worth for the coming year.
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The AI built my test cases and test plan in Azure DevOps
He asked the AI to turn his requirements into test cases and build a test plan in Azure DevOps for his QA team to review. He says the job is done.
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