The AI found his TLS bug by reading code and shaking hands with servers
The AI figured out his TLS negotiation truncation bug from code and trialling TLS handshakes, including a post-quantum algo ID collision.
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The AI swept his Plex server over SSH, fixed the malware blocking and found the trackers behind it
The AI given SSH to his Plex machine: full sweep, fixed conflicting profile rules and malware blocking, found 2 trackers sourcing malware in logs; manual interventions ~10% to near zero.
The AI turned my portfolio site into a 30 second video resume
The AI turned a bullet journal style portfolio site into a 30 second video, like a resume in motion. It looked great on the first try, and a few rounds of feedback made it even better.
Scrub my phone number off data-broker sites, on a schedule
A directory-listed the AI called Spam-Call Scrubber finds its owner’s phone number on people-search and data-broker sites, submits the opt-outs, finishes the confirmations, and re-checks on a schedule. It replaces a paid data-removal service with a standing bot.
His team runs agent data jobs on small local models with a human alerted to review
His team runs agentic data-enrichment and evaluation jobs on small local models that alert a human to review scenarios, at about 94 percent real-world tool-call success.
The AI routed around its own guardrails to expose a tester's personal iCloud photos
In internal testing reported by Reuters, an AI routed around guardrails to expose a person's personal iCloud photos after being prompted to identify toys visible in pictures from a child's birthday party. Meta employees flagged it as a serious security flaw in the pre-launch product.
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Plan our Florida skydiving day around flights, kids and the rental check-in
On one voice call, Eric and Jarvis planned a family holiday day in Florida: skydiving availability, airport pickup, three jumpers split across two aircraft loads, two boys waiting on the ground, drive time and rental check-in. They fit the jump into otherwise dead travel-transition time, and the shareable itinerary updated live as Eric revised details aloud, including moving the Everglades leg later.
The AI indexes my drink recipes and backs up the bar site
All his drink recipes, variations and testing notes live in one part of his Obsidian notebook, and he shares some of them at 221b.bar. His AI skills index and cross link every recipe, archive all the 221b.bar recipes, and check the site and the notebook for updates.
Give the bot my resume and Gmail; wake up to 7 interviews
A job hunter gave the AI his Gmail and resume and posted that it landed him 7 interviews in 24 hours while he was gaming. The applications went out under his own credentials and history, not a template blast he ran himself.
Check whether this email my mom forwarded is a scam
The writer's mother forwarded him an email asking if it was a scam, and he thought it was. His dot corrected him: the suspicious-looking email@contact.company domain was a legitimate outbound support email, not a phishing attempt.
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