An LLM built the sandbox a big project had left undone for almost a decade
An LLM built Homebrew's Landlock Linux sandbox that had sat unfixed on the roadmap for almost a decade, reviewed line by line by maintainers and shipped.
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The AI proactively pitched a column idea after reading his Messages database: it suggested the column and offered to do the research
Inc. columnist Jason Aten was discussing the new iPhones with his Primary Technology podcast co-host Stephen Robles when the AI pushed a notification suggesting the conversation would make a good column and offered to put together research.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI edits my videos so I can post more
He drags his raw video into AI, and it cuts the pauses, stumbles, and stutters. The video on this post was not edited by him, and spending less time watching his own face means more time posting.
Run my VPS health check and updates over SSH from the couch
The AI connected to the user's VPS over SSH, ran a health check and applied updates, all directed from the couch.
His plane radar app for Apple TV sat at number one on the paid chart for over a week
He built Utkik, an Apple TV app that turns the television into a live radar for planes, with AI. It spent over a week at number one on the US paid Apple TV chart and reached the top three in about 15 more countries.
Saved every address the author had sent into a 'Korea Seoul' Google
Key Lee had the AI save every address he'd sent into a 'Korea Seoul' Google Maps collection through a fully automatic browser workflow shown on video.
The AI merged two photos of the same spot into one family picture, faces intact
The AI with Photocraft combined people from two photos of the same location into one photo in 3 tries over 5 minutes, after the AI attempts had changed faces.
The AI got my insurer to pay a claim two law firms said was hopeless. About $40,000.
His insurer would not pay for a damaged well on one of his gas leases, and two insurance law firms told him he had no case. The AI read nearly 230 pages of contracts, letters and legal opinions, found his policy kept older, more generous terms from 2015, rewrote the claim, filed it by email, and he got the money.
$40,000one time
155 apps formally refused to let the Doubao phone agent operate them
ByteDance's Doubao phone assistant launched with a screen-automation protocol (SAEP) letting apps declare whether its agent may operate them; when the 30-day notice period ended on Oct 14, 2026, 155 apps had refused, including WeChat, QQ, Taobao, Alipay, Meituan, Xiaohongshu, Didi and major banks. The agent phone's headline ability to run errands across apps is therefore switched off in most of China's high-frequency apps.
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The AI brought my old album art display back to life
His old Tuneshine display for album art sat unused because it kept losing its connection and depended on a cloud service. The AI identified the display, ran pin tests, and wrote new firmware, and now a small program on his NAS shows album art or a world clock on it.
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