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The AI downloaded 9,000 baby monitor photos I could not get by hand

His baby monitor had about 9,000 photos and videos of his son's first three years, but saving them meant clicking each one by hand. He had the AI write a script that downloaded all of them in 45 minutes.

How it works

  1. He has the AI write a download script
  2. The script pulls the photos and videos from the baby monitor
  3. All of them are downloaded in 45 minutes

Why it’s worth knowing

The monitor held three years of his son's life behind a one click at a time download. One script from the AI pulled all of it down in 45 minutes.

Where it’s from

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

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