All ideasMore in Hobbies
Hobbies

The AI fixed the WiFi I had used a dongle for all year

For a year he plugged in a USB WiFi dongle because his built in WiFi was not working and he could not fix it himself. The AI fixed the built in WiFi in 10 minutes.

How it works

  1. Built in WiFi stops working
  2. He uses a USB dongle for a year
  3. He asks the AI to fix it
  4. The built in WiFi is fixed in 10 minutes

Why it’s worth knowing

A WiFi problem that lasted a year and beat his own attempts took the AI 10 minutes.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

Upgraded prompt

A ready-to-use prompt for this idea, built from research on what makes AI agents do the job right: who the AI should be, the exact steps, and a check to make sure it was done the way you wanted.

1Who the AI should be
2The prompt, with the steps
3The check when it’s done
Upgraded prompts are coming soon.

Try next

HobbiesSpark Learned a Writer's Voice From Sent Emails and Saved It as a Reusable SkillHobbiesI cut my bots' wakeups from about 300 a week to about 140HobbiesThe AI built its own mail app in 23 minutesHobbiesThe AI searched five years of email and listed my forgotten accounts

Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.