He keeps his photography tool alive with an AI harness and dropped his Adobe subscription
Built and maintains a photography workflow tool with an AI coding harness and discontinued his Adobe subscription.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasDelivered unsolicited fantasy-football reports five days a week (Monday recaps, Wednesday waiver-wire),
2026, a host described playing fantasy football in two leagues while the AI sends weekly performance reports every Monday night and waiver-wire reports every Wednesday — unsolicited football advice about five days a week. Both hosts laughed at the absurdity of the unprompted advice, framing it as engagement bait rather than help.
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The AI and I hacked my old Wish smartwatch. Now it talks to a local AI.
Today he and the AI hacked a cheap Wish smartwatch he had abandoned for years. Now the watch talks to an AI model running locally, like a bargain basement Alexa.
My agent sorts my Lightroom photos and quarantines the rejects against my NAS
He says he built a custom connector to Adobe Lightroom and has the AI organizing photos in it. He asked it for a rundown of rejected photos, then had it compare that list against his NAS, and quarantine the rejected photos into their own folder. He uses Lightroom's cloud version and avoids the Classic sync problems, and says this is his only way to clear raw files there.
The AI picked my new PC on eBay and talked me through moving off my paid VPS
He ran his apps on a Raspberry Pi and paid for a VPS to keep the AI away from live operations. The AI worked out the spec for a PC that could run two virtual machines, researched eBay and found a good deal, and he followed its instructions, mostly by pasting commands on his phone, to set up both machines and move everything over.
An agent got back into his locked-out server through a side door and fixed it
An agent fixed his Unraid server issue, regaining access by hopping in via a syslog-ng server using a leftover SSH key when direct SSH failed.
His agent read the crash logs and untangled three different crashes on one laptop
A man's laptop crashed hard while he was working with the opencode agent. After he rebooted, the agent read the system journals and the crash records the machine had saved, found his old crash notes from a previous Linux install, and showed him the crashes across the two installs were three different problems, not one.
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An agent skill that files saved Instagram reels into topic collections, battle-tested
A builder created an agent skill that files a user's saved Instagram reels into topic collections. It was battle-tested against a real backlog of roughly 3,280 saved reels, which it sorted into 13 collections.
The AI built the pipeline that turns my telescope nights into a supernova light curve
He is following supernova SN 2026aaiv in NGC 7331 with his telescope and camera, with data from 6 nights through g and r Sloan filters. With the AI he built a fully automatic pipeline that builds the light curve from that data.
The AI set up his TV guide system, wrote the missing guide parsers, and runs it daily on his server
For football season a man pointed the AI at his utility server and had it set up Dispatcharr, a TV guide system. Finding his 50 channels among 80,000, with guide data that does not always work, is the hard part of this setup. The AI got it configured, wrote scripts to parse channel guides from sources the built in guide misses, scheduled them to update daily, and deployed the whole thing.
The AI built the dual-subtitle extensions he and his wife watch foreign shows with
Antigravity and the AI built the Crunchyroll and Netflix multi-subtitle Chrome extensions he and his wife actually watch with (his wife's travel blog in the same comment left out as too thin).
Built a recipe-organizing app from his saved Instagram posts in 5 minutes
After a friend used AI on Instagram favorites, Thompson asked it to organize his saved Instagram recipes. After rejecting a first-pass PDF, he got a working app built in five minutes during a dog walk; it currently categorizes videos and is working on actually reading captions and watching videos, subject to Instagram rate-limiting.
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The AI added a chat server to his self-hosting stack in about 20 minutes
The AI with OpenTofu and Docker added Prosody to his self-hosting stack in about 20 minutes; it works.
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.
Opus decompiles Windows 95-era games to byte-exact source in about a week each
Uses Opus 5.5 to decompile Windows 95-98 games in about a week each, getting byte-to-byte exact output with clear names and no Ghidra smell.
I had the AI crawl 2 years of my email, calendar and docs
He had the AI, running in agy-cli, crawl 2 years of his email, calendar and Google Docs and infer his preferences, habits and interests. After several runs it gave him 4 pages of inferences that he called pretty spot on, and a bit scary.
The AI found why my phone photos stopped syncing and cleared 794 files
His Fairphone photos stopped syncing to his Murena cloud in June with no error, and forums only gave him general advice. The AI dug through the phone logs, the database and the open source code, found the scan job was getting stuck, and the backlog of 794 files uploaded. His cloud use went from 13.2 GB to 14.9 GB and new photos now upload in seconds.
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The AI wrote me a script that sends PC photos to my phone
He needed to attach a photo from his PC to a text message. After several rounds with AI he had a script that picks a photo on his PC and sends it straight to his phone, which he likes better than going through Google Photos.
A language model transcribed a whole historical correspondence volume
A researcher had a language model transcribe a digitised volume of Sophie Germain's incoming correspondence at the national library, and published the transcription. Working from it, he spotted a mathematical note written on an 1814 letter cover and is asking who wrote it.
The AI wrote the Lean proof from the published paper
A researcher wrote the Lean statement of a theorem himself, then fed the published paper to the AI and had it write the proof. It finished in a couple of hours, and the Lean kernel verified the proof.
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