The AI reminds me to check in on people I know
His AI connection tracker is synced with Bluesky, X and LinkedIn. It reminds him to check in on people and tells him what they have been up to.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI helped him read 1700s French church records and find ancestors no family tree had
He does not read French, and his ancestors’ records sit in handwritten Quebec church registers from the 1700s, scanned into public databases. Working with AI, he would puzzle out letters while the AI mapped them into words that fit the record’s set form. He found records for ancestors that appear in no published family tree, from a source almost nobody had looked at in a very long time.
The AI worked out his home server setup and wrote a remote unlock tool for it
A home server owner had the AI study his running server and turn the setup into Ansible files, which they refined together until it worked. The AI also wrote a small tool that unlocks the server encrypted disk from another machine, which he now uses.
Teach me Korean webtoon words with a game
A language learner had the AI create an original walk-around game that teaches vocabulary from the first episodes of a Korean webtoon, targeted to his intermediate level. Every word is tappable for a simpler-Korean definition, with cloze quizzes woven into the story, and he has played through two of four chapters.
I moved my blog and its 2,262 posts with AI
He moved his Topedia blog from WordPress to EmDash on a Cloudflare Worker, with AI as his technical partner. They moved 2,262 posts, comments and pages in under 7 days, and the site now loads faster and is ready for Markdown.
The AI on his phone clones projects, builds his features in, and ships the app back to the phone
Uses the AI on his phone to clone projects, build his features in, build the app and push it to his phone, usually not upstreaming.
Built a 'Cupid' agent inside an AI app that stores a couple's income, strengths
A self-described 'personal CFO for wealthmaxxing couples' on Facebook built an AI named 'Cupid' that stores her and her boyfriend's income, strengths, and goals, then proactively reminds them each month to have a 'money date' — bridging her moonshot-entrepreneur style with his investment-savvy approach.
His only interface now is one assistant session that delegates to agents on other machines
Runs a personal-assistant session via Signal that tracks tasks and delegates to per-project agent sessions on other machines; it is now his only direct interface.
The same bot that fights his spam also scrubbed his details off data brokers
The poster of the spam text case also had his bot remove his personal details from data broker listings. He lists both jobs among the things the bot has genuinely handled for him.
Run 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.
My agent drove my Mac and posted my Discord poll by hand
Discord has no API for polls, so he gave his agent Roby access to his Mac. Roby opened the form and posted the poll under his name, the way a person would.
The AI ported his old PHP site to Rust, and caching made the new one keep up
Had the AI transpile his old frameworkless PHP site to Rust and ran it behind the same nginx config; Rust was slower until the AI added micro-caching, reaching comparable rps and latency.
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The AI Science rebuilt my gene check report in 15 minutes
A researcher had slowly built his own pipeline to check which parts of a human gene model are backed by real evidence, then still had to judge the evidence by hand. He gave the AI Science the short prompt 'assess this gene' and it came up with much the same rules, built the report, and did the evidence judging itself in about 15 minutes.
His agent moved his whole system from Ubuntu to Omarchy in about an hour
He had his agent migrate his machine from Ubuntu to Omarchy with a backup taken first and a restore tested. The switch took about an hour, and he says he is not going back.
The AI recorded the audiobook that did not exist for his favourite translation
The AI created an audiobook for him from the Robin Buss translation of The Count of Monte Cristo, which had no audiobook.
I built my own uptime monitor because nothing out there fit
He could not find an uptime and performance monitor that met his needs, so he built a lightweight one called Blip with help from the AI. He put the code on GitLab and wrote a blog post about it.
A batch script the AI wrote kept charging a locked image account, 11 failed runs, balance below zero
A developer asked the AI to batch-generate images through fal.ai in budgeted chunks with checks between runs. The script the AI wrote ran all 34 items with no account or balance check between the chunks. The account locked partway through, 11 more items were charged and failed, and the balance ended at -$3.68.
$11.67at stake
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Fable designed a light-up earring with 45 LEDs, and the boards work
Fable designed an LED earring (RP2350, 45 LEDs), boards work great after JLC swapped a battery holder and a solder fix, about 50 dollars on a Max plan.
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The AI rewrote his laptop touchpad stack and cut the lag nearly in half
The AI rewrote the touchpad stack on his ThinkPad T14 running Linux and Hyprland. Touch to cursor time went from about 33 ms to about 18 ms.
A local model with full access to his PC organises his files and writes its own helper tools
His local Qwen agent computer with full PC access does file organizing, analyzed his local data and wrote several small tools to manage it automatically, coded a KDE widget for VRAM model swaps.
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