An agent checks his lecturer partner's references against the real sources
Built an LLM-backed reference checker for his partner, a lecturer: an agent reads each cited source and checks the reference is correct and not hallucinated.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasAfter an update, my automations 'published' posts that never existed (failure)
After a repair triggered a forced migration to a new session-store database, one user's months of the AI automations broke: the gateway would not launch, scheduled jobs reported content 'created and published' that did not exist, and jobs plus a connected account were reported gone. With no pre-update backup there was no rollback, and the user dropped the AI back to drafting only.
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The AI helped him put his genealogy work on one homepage
After putting it off for years, he worked with AI over a few sessions to build a homepage for his genealogy research. The page is up with links to eight parts of his work, and three of them already have material on them.
The AI built my tool for spotting ships that stay off AIS
Over two weeks the AI built his hobby tool that matches free Sentinel-1 radar images with live AIS ship data around Denmark, recording AIS either side of each satellite pass on its own and marking radar spots with no ship as leads. In one check 2 to 5 of about 555 pairings were wrong.
A student has the AI review his generated code, and it caught a real security issue once
Student has the AI review generated code on side projects; it caught a real security issue once.
A model broke a dongle's copy protection and his emulator boots the old music software
Broke copy protection with GPT 5.6 and has a forked Hatari that boots and runs Notator and Creator by emulating the dongle.
My first model designed with AI 4 is a popcorn bucket
She used AI 4 with FreeCAD and TripoDai to design an Optimus Prime popcorn bucket, her first model. A prototype is made and shows a few errors she still needs to fix, but she is happy with the result.
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His AI-built alignment tool syncs audiobooks to ebooks, a 60-hour book in 20 minutes
Uses an AI-implemented forced-alignment technique to generate sync files for epub and audiobooks, aligning a 60 hour book in 20 minutes on his GPU.
The AI captions my video the same way as the last one
He asks the AI Agent to caption a video in Palmier Pro the same way as the previous one, and it does it from what it remembers. If there is no voice transcript, it writes code to make the captions happen.
The AI tidied his config files and added the automation he switches devices with
The AI helped clean up his dotfiles and add automation and tests, used to switch devices and identities.
The AI shot and edited his DJ music video for free
He directed the AI through shooting and editing a full music video for his DJ set. He said it cost nothing and he would use AI for video work again.
The AI in his car refused to send a dictated message, mistaking it for a medical question
The AI in Android Auto refused to send his dictated message, treating the message text as a medical advice request, message never sent.
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Build my own desktop image editor in five weeks
A creator who fixes AI-generated images in ComfyUI had the AI build him a full desktop editor, Scumble, over five weeks starting September 4: 632 commits and about 83,000 lines of app code, tested against his own pictures. It reached 43 releases and a Microsoft Store listing, and every feature doubles as a command an agent can call.
The AI took a phone emulator from crashing at 2 frames a second to a playable 30
The AI used an adb and profiling harness to take the Eden emulator on a Pixel 10 from crashing to 2 fps to 20-30 fps in Breath of the Wild.
He built a new programming language for a 6502 machine with AI
He built Tantal, a small compiled language for the MOS 6502, designed around the real limits of his PAL-2 computer: predictable code, direct memory-mapped input and output, and no stack based parameters. He developed it with AI, and the display example now runs on the physical machine.
I built an app to move my notes between my Boox and my Samsung
He takes notes on both a Boox and a Samsung device and the two formats did not mix. He built an Android app with AI that converts both formats back and forth, so he can move his notes between them.
The AI refused to type a password it already had, blocking a print job and a sign-in
The AI refused to type a password and an emailed 6 digit verification code it already had in context, blocking a print job from a share drive and a website sign-in.
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The AI got my 1,651 message the AI conversation back for me
He asked the AI to move a long the AI conversation into a coding project. The AI picked a Safari extension he had written himself, recovered 1,651 messages and 97 artifacts, and checked the files.
Track my reading goal and add books to my list
AI engineer Sajal Sharma built an AI on Telegram that tracks his tasks and notes and handles scheduled work. On camera he asked for a project overview, checked progress toward a reading goal, and had the assistant search the web for a book series and add the books it found to his reading list.
The AI wrote the setup for my three new CI servers
Since the end of August he has added three new CI servers to his own setup. The AI wrote each NixOS setup and he checked the work, so now he can rebuild any of the servers from scratch in minutes.
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