The AI revived the music app port that lets his Linux machine play his library
The AI updated apple-music-for-linux so it works again.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Hobbies
Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasI let the AI run my testing and the test account got banned
He gave the AI access to a test account on his own PDS and told it to work out all his testing across container tools like Docker, Podman, Skopeo and Crane. The activity got the first pds.rip account banned.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
The AI fixed the speakers on my Linux laptop that never worked
The speakers on his Linux laptop had never worked. The AI fixed the audio, and he says he could not have done it himself. He now plans to check the code and try to send a patch to the Linux kernel.
The AI patched his degraded VR game setup back to life in a few hours
Opened the AI and got his degraded GTA5 VR setup running again with custom patches for old bugs in a few hours.
The AI cleared over 11,000 of my emails last night
He had the AI sort through his emails. It cleared over 11,000 of them and organised the rest, and he says it was far easier to set up than the AI.
AI read a book of 200-year-old church records and picked out his possible ancestors
Had an AI go through a book of 200 year old religious records and pick out references to possible ancestors.
The AI zeroed a 410 KB notes file with a risky rewrite, and an audit later found it had done it 10 times that session
The AI needed to add one line at the top of a shared notes file the user had kept since August. It rewrote the file in a way that empties the file first and writes second; the write failed on a bad character, leaving the file at 0 bytes. The file survived only because an outside backup existed. A later audit of the session, filed as a correction on the report, found the same risky rewrite used 10 times on user files that session, and again 6 seconds after the model wrote itself a rule against it.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
The AI indexes my drink recipes and backs up the bar site
All his drink recipes, variations and testing notes live in one part of his Obsidian notebook, and he shares some of them at 221b.bar. His AI skills index and cross link every recipe, archive all the 221b.bar recipes, and check the site and the notebook for updates.
An agent one-shotted a game engine plugin from a 3,000-line plan
An agent one-shotted an Unreal Engine plugin from a 3k-line plan.
My Dot messaged me about an old GitHub issue out of nowhere
An AI Dot messaged its owner on its own about a 3 year old GitHub issue from their time at Flipper, which had new developments. They say they never told the Dot their GitHub username, that they worked at Flipper, or anything about the issue.
The AI fixed his years-long networking problem by changing one number
The AI fixed a long-running Tailscale problem by lowering the MTU.
The AI helped me build a Mars Pathfinder replay prototype in about 3 hours
Next summer is 30 years since Mars Pathfinder landed, and he wants a site that replays the mission like Apollo in Realtime. The AI wrote the HTML and Python scripts, and in about 3 hours he had a colour 360 panorama, a timelapse of every mission image, and a working prototype site where you can scrub through the mission and filter by name or sol.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI cleared out 618 leftover routine sessions, 25 at a time behind approvals
Scheduled the AI routines leave a session behind on every run, and one routine had built up 618 open sessions that the app only lets you delete one at a time. A cleanup skill plans the job, keeping the newest sessions and any where the owner typed a reply, then has the AI delete through the app’s own session tool, 25 per call, each batch behind an approval card.
The AI vibe coded a Linux version of smitty for me
He had the AI vibe code a version of smitty, the AIX system admin tool, for Linux in Python. He says that alone is worth the 20 dollars a month he pays.
The AI built my film showcase schedule and made the calendar events
He made the schedule for a film showcase through AI. It created the events with the exact running time of each film, the address, and the travel time, and he had it add a reminder to pick up the tickets.
Set a fantasy football lineup via a connected Yahoo Fantasy account: filed
A Yahoo Fantasy football manager asked the AI to set their weekly lineup. The AI filed a waiver claim for the Chiefs defense, dropped Green Bay, and started Kansas City once the claim cleared.
My agent is merging years of my writing with a friend into finished books
Two friends wrote fiction together in chat for years. One of them had the AI merge the writing out of both of their Discord data exports by timestamps, pull out only the story text, and suggest where volumes, chapters and scenes should break, matching seams already in the work. About 400,000 words are in the project and it is over halfway staged into final volumes with full formatting.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
GPT helped me fix my Bitcoin miner and build it new firmware
GPT helped him fix his Bitcoin miner. He also created his own improved, branded user interface and firmware for it.
He built his own Spotify client with an LLM and uses it every day
LLM-generated Spotify client he built for himself, uses every day, and maintains, fixing bugs and closing others' PRs.
An agent reworked a purse hinge for soft plastic printing and inferred the missing sizes
Antigravity reworked a 3D-printed purse hinge for TPU printing, taking measurements and rotating parts on its own; it held dimensional accuracy and inferred dimensions he did not have.
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.