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The AI cleaned up his photo libraries across accounts and converted his old phone images

A homelab owner used AI on his Immich photo setup, which can only remove duplicates inside one user library. The AI found the duplicates across multiple libraries and quarantined them, found his grid based images from his iPhone 4 days, wrote the conversion software, and turned them into animated WebP files.

How it works

  1. The AI looks across all his Immich user libraries, not just one
  2. It finds the duplicates and quarantines them
  3. It locates the grid based images from his old phone
  4. It writes conversion software and converts them to animated WebP

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent did the cleanup the photo app itself cannot do, across every library at once, then wrote its own tool for the odd images.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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