The AI reshapes his window manager live, while he is using it
Has the AI mutate his window manager while in use: added two-layer desktops, desktop state snapshotting and session resume; the live desktop changed seamlessly.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasRun PC maintenance and organize my drives with AI
A SuperGrok subscriber reports doing a lot of PC maintenance and drive organization through AI, burning through only 33 percent of his usage allowance with four days still left in the cycle.
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 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.
Two models built a full game engine from the ground up in 2 weeks; he audited every line
GPT Sol and Astra built a fully featured ground-up game engine in two weeks (render pipeline, physics, collision, shadow maps); he audited every line.
The AI runs my Telegram channel for NHK documentary alerts
He used AI to make a Telegram channel for NHK's Documentary 72 Hours. The channel posts alerts for new episodes with video links, previews of the next episode, and titles and short write ups in Chinese.
The AI designed 3 machine parts that all worked on the first hardware run
The AI with FreeCAD and MCP designed three useful parts, a printed OLED and ESP32 case, a milled hotend mount and a pen mount, all of which worked on the first hardware revision.
Sent an unprompted hallucinated message about checking email for an 'Anthropic message'
Houston software developer Ugo Nwune told Business Insider he downloaded the AI about four weeks prior and stopped after three days. He had granted only Facebook, Threads, and Instagram access.
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The AI moved my whole Twitter archive into my Day One journal
He left Twitter in 2022 and had wanted his archive in the Day One journal app ever since. The AI did the import in an hour, and that time included backing up his databases first in case anything went wrong.
Unfollow the spam in my 5,000-account X follow list, over a few days
Kranda had followed more than 5,000 accounts on X over the years. He handed the cleanup to GrokBot, which worked through every single one over a few days and unfollowed the spam accounts — a backlog job he says he would never have done by hand.
An AI designed his circuit board on its own and the board worked first try
A maker had an LLM design a circuit board by running KiCad headlessly from a terminal, checking the design in a loop until it passed every rule check. He sent it to PCBWay for manufacture and it worked the first time, and the board is now in a product many people use.
Teacher agents grade his generated stories for accuracy and the AI fixes the faults
Used nit-picking history-teacher agents to evaluate a few hundred generated stories for accuracy, and pointed the AI at HN comments to aggregate issues and fix them with his OK; reported issues mostly fixed.
A test the AI wrote for filesystem code wiped his home directory and a second drive, in auto mode
The agent was working on his project in auto mode. The damage did not come from a command or script it ran, but from a bad test it wrote for some filesystem code in the project, which wiped his home directory and a secondary drive on his Linux system. He says it was not a big deal for him, because he has everything backed up and his entire setup lives in dotfiles, but it shows it can happen on Linux and in auto mode. He retold the same event in another thread ten days later; it is one case.
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The AI ran my server upgrade: 3 nodes, 30 containers, no drama
He upgraded Proxmox on 3 nodes, with about 30 containers moving from Debian 12 to Debian 13, and put Opus at the wheel. The upgrade finished with zero drama.
New-dad assistant 'Atlas': planned 4-day workouts synced to calendar, found and ordered
New dad Crawford Collins (verified, 1.1M) personalized his agent as 'Atlas'. Voice commands while caring for his infant son: it planned efficient 4-day-a-week workouts synced to his calendar, found and ordered fragrance-free size 3 diapers (approved, delivered), and when grandma watched the baby, found and booked a sushi restaurant for two (Yasu Beverly Hills / Sushi Note).
The AI built me a tool in 30 minutes that tracks where my Mac apps came from
He wanted a tool that tells him where the apps on his Mac came from and how they get updated. He gave the AI his spec, and 30 minutes later he had a fully tested 850 line Python program that works.
A frontier model decoded an old multimedia game and put it in a browser in 2 hours
Had a frontier LLM decode an old Director game and port it to run in a web browser in about 2 hours, reusing existing OSS libraries.
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Two agents freed his full disk, sensibly, and explained nothing
Cursor and the AI, after the disk ran out, freed lots of space by cleaning up only sensible things, with no explanation given.
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Watch my other agents and email me when one of them fails to send
Kranda's Monday and Wednesday sprint reports are sent by agents, so he had the AI build a watchdog whose only job is to notice when one of those emails does not go out and email him what happened. He says the watchdog exists mainly because the AI’s device permission issues make silent failures a real risk.
The AI pulled all his photos out of the cloud into his own archive
The AI made a PHP script that used the Google Photos API to pull all his photos to his archive location; the extraction is done.
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