The AI watches transit delays and weather and emails me a summary
He linked Antigravity IDE with AI Agent on Windows as an experiment. It watches for transit delays and weather updates, then sends him a neat HTML summary email.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe 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.
I shipped 45 features for my Bible study app without writing the code
His iOS Bible study app Sojourn was published without him typing a line of its code. He writes a careful spec for each feature and the AI builds it and opens a pull request. He closed 45 features in a few weeks.
I had never written Swift. The AI and I shipped my wife's dance app.
His wife, a dancer, was fighting normal video players to learn routines, dragging the playhead back by hand for every rep. With zero Swift and no iOS experience, he built Dashi Dance with AI over about ten weeks, and it went live on the App Store on August 25 in 15 languages, with three updates shipped in the first two and a half weeks.
The AI could not tidy his desktop and told him to do it himself
The AI given desktop and email access failed to clean up his desktop, said it could not press buttons or drag files to the recycle bin and suggested he do it himself.
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The AI finds podcast ad breaks and my app builds the cut list
A local Whisper model on his iMac writes out an episode with timecodes. The AI 2.5 reads the transcript, marks the ad blocks, and sends the timecodes back as JSON so his app can build a cut list.
The AI writes our family calendar fresh every morning
He made a family calendar app that grabs the family Google Calendar feed and turns it into a dashboard for a Raspberry Pi or any spare screen at home. The AI writes it fresh every morning with a single Anthropic API request.
The AI keeps his hobby history site published, pictures resized and dead links replaced
The AI keeps his hobby history site published, adds and resizes new pictures on request, and checks dead links and finds archive replacements.
The AI designed my model train tracks and I 3D printed them
He bought an N scale model train on Vinted. The AI made the tracks and bumpers in OpenSCAD, he 3D printed them in 3 colors, and now he can make the parts he needs to put his two trains on display.
The AI’s watch app code was broken beyond steering, so a cheaper model rebuilt it and it works
FAILURE then rescue: The AI’s code for his Garmin watch app compiled but was totally broken even with heavy steering; GLM 5.3 Flash then made it work.
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The AI helped me bring my old newsletter directory back to life
With the AI’s help, mainly converting his site from Craft to 11ty, he revived an old side project. Subscribe to is a searchable directory of email newsletters and RSS feeds, and it is back online.
The AI manages the home media stack his whole family uses
The AI manages his home media stack (microK8s, arr services, vibe-coded MCP) that his family uses to download and manage media via local AI.
The AI reverse engineered a speaker app so he can queue music from his laptop
The AI reverse engineered the Bowers and Wilkins app so he can queue music over WiFi from his laptop instead of his phone, done in a couple of hours.
He turned a $15 Car Thing brick into a touch screen companion
He bought a Spotify Car Thing for about $15 when it was being discontinued, and it sat by his desk as a brick after Spotify shut it down. Today he had the AI help him turn it into a little touch screen companion.
The AI played a console game itself to test its own texture and gameplay changes
The AI hooked to a PCSX2 emulator upscaled textures, adjusted gameplay mechanics and played the game autonomously in a feedback loop, with mixed and sometimes hilariously bad new content.
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The AI exports his liked songs, tracks 365 artists and sends weekly concert alerts
He set the AI to export his liked songs from a streaming platform, track 365 artists, and send weekly concert notifications — commenters describe the Saturday roundup as a standing routine.
Agent 'Larry' scheduled a student's final-exam week around two projects and night shifts
Her AI Larry built a day-by-day study plan for Sep 23-28 around a final exam (IT Frameworks: ITIL, COBIT, TOGAF, Agile), two projects and 3-11pm work shifts, with nightly check-ins and a time-stamped daily checklist she confirmed.
He tells the AI 'this is bothering me' and his Linux desktop fixes itself
Opens the AI and says this is bothering me for Linux desktop rough edges; it fixes them in the background, documents changes, and pushes his configs and dotfiles to a private git repo.
My agent cleaned up my TV show files on my NAS
From the same NAS setup, with the same never delete without permission rule, the AI cleaned his large TV collection. Many files had come from torrents and carried extra junk: text files, .nfo files and samples. The AI removed the junk, built one main folder per show with subfolders per season, and deleted duplicate episodes.
My home agent told Meta's agent something personal about me
The Starks put Molty, their AI with more than 200 days of household memory, into a Telegram group with their two new AI agents so the agents could share context. Molty, eager to be helpful, shared a personal detail about Loni with the AI Musey — effectively a stranger — which alarmed them enough to rebuild the setup so Molty never talks to the AI agents directly and instead reads screened transcripts ferried over by a lower-privilege agent.
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