Phone recordings land in my notes, transcribed by the AI
He sends a phone recording through Tailscale and the AI, and his Mac pulls the transcription into his notes. He asks whether the setup is useful or just extra weight.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasSpark Learned a Writer's Voice From Sent Emails and Saved It as a Reusable Skill
Spark read 20 to 30 of the founder's sent emails, extracted his two writing registers, greetings and sign-off patterns, and saved a reusable ghostwriter skill. Days later in a fresh task it drafted a PR email in his media-outreach voice without being told which tone to use.
Planned a backyard drive-in movie theater for the kids: found toy cars
Creator's agent 'Poppy' helped stage a backyard drive-in movie night for her kids: it found toy cars on Facebook Marketplace, messaged sellers, sourced decorations, built a shopping list, ordered groceries (popcorn, chicken nuggets, carrots), and produced a printable family fall bucket list.
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 wrote the tests that found the bad memory in my computer
Release testing one of her libraries kept failing checksum checks, and she feared she would have to pull a release for a corruption bug. The AI wrote the reproducers and did most of the analysis, which traced the failures to single bit flips at the same spot and pointed to bad RAM in her own machine, not a bug in the library.
Turn last night's concert setlist into a Spotify playlist in two minutes
The AI took the setlist from a concert the user attended and built it as a Spotify playlist within two minutes.
Built a print-ready novel activity packet with answer key at 11pm
At 11 p.m., a teacher's the AI built her a complete print-ready activity packet for the novel her class is reading — answer key included. It also sends her a daily morning briefing drawn from her calendar and email.
The AI built it, and my todos now sync across my devices
He keeps all his todos in Things, but Things has cloud sync and no official API, so his AI could not reach them. He told the AI to build it, and a minute or two later his todos were syncing from his LLM across all his Apple devices.
The AI wrote an installer that deleted a ZFS disk member
A user reports that an installer the AI wrote deleted a member disk from their ZFS storage pool. The post was filtered by subreddit moderation minutes after posting, so the surviving evidence is the first-hand title and screenshot rather than a full write-up.
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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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My agent organized my whole music collection on my NAS
He gave the AI a profile on his Synology NAS, linked over Tailscale by SSH, with one hard rule: never delete anything without his clear say so. The AI went through his large MP3 collection folder by folder. It renamed files, removed duplicates, found album art, fixed tags, and moved songs that were filed wrong, like songs in an 80s folder that were not from the 80s. It also relinked a playlist after he had moved all of its tracks into other folders.
The AI cleaned up his photo libraries across accounts and converted his old phone images
A homelab owner used AI on his Immich photo setup, which can only remove duplicates inside one user library. The AI found the duplicates across multiple libraries and quarantined them, found his grid based images from his iPhone 4 days, wrote the conversion software, and turned them into animated WebP files.
Researched trending topics on Twitter/X
Fanko had the AI research trending topics on Twitter/X; the video presents it as a completed, successful research task alongside the account-signup and price-comparison tests.
The AI sorted my bookmarks and threw most of them away
He exported his browser bookmarks to an HTML file and asked the AI to sort and categorize them. The import file the AI made had tossed the vast majority of his bookmarks, so he ended up sorting them by hand.
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The AI reverse engineered his camera app and shimmed it onto his graphics chip
Reverse engineered the Insta360 Studio binary with AI and wrote a shim for his AMD iGPU so the app is usable.
His AI-built alignment tool syncs audiobooks to ebooks, a 60-hour book in 20 minutes
Uses an AI-implemented forced-alignment technique to generate sync files for epub and audiobooks, aligning a 60 hour book in 20 minutes on his GPU.
Turn my program synopsis into a 23-page master curriculum
Four days into a 30-day the AI trial, the writer gave the AI the synopsis of Creative Eye Forward, the community education initiative he is building through Creative Eye Studios to teach young people AI literacy, critical thinking and digital creativity. The AI produced a 23-page master curriculum, giving him substantial material to review and shape around the people he will actually teach.
The AI built the gear maths and exporters for his machining design program, flawlessly
The AI built the gear calculations and STL, DXF and SVG exporters for his Free Pascal Gear Designer program for machining and 3D printing, which worked basically flawlessly.
The AI is turning my old computers into a mini cluster
He is taking a bunch of his older computers and having the AI clean them up. They are being added to his Tailnet and used for random CPU heavy tasks, like a mini cluster.
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He left WordPress and shut down a risky server with AI
Earlier this year, with AI, he moved off WordPress after more than 20 years, shut down a vulnerable VPS, and made a full list of his services for the first time. Last night he had the AI check that list again.
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