The AI is helping me get back 15 year old tweets and photos I thought were lost

He is recovering his 15 year old tweets with photos that he thought were basically lost, with AI's help. The AI also built him a custom GUI editor that he will use once to hand edit the collections of tweets.

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How it works

The AI helps recover the old tweets and photos
The AI builds a custom GUI editor
He will use the editor once to hand edit the collections

Why it’s worth knowing

The editor is a tool he will use exactly once. He would never have built it by hand, but an agent made it cheap enough to exist.

Where it’s from

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

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