The AI’s CAD scripting produces his woodworking designs, cut lists and shop drawings
The AI with FreeCAD python scripts creates and modifies his CAD drawings, producing 3D designs, cut-lists and shop drawings for woodworking.
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She asked her phone to set an alarm for 6am and put the phone away. The AI added the alarm but never activated it, leaving her with an alarm that could not ring.
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Turned pantry items into a $30/week meal challenge for a family of
Creator took on a $30/week family-of-4 budget challenge with AI, asking it to start from what she already had in her pantry. The AI produced 7 dinner ideas, a grocery list, and a price comparison; her Walmart haul came to $29.66, under budget.
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The AI turned my music listening history into a scrolling story
He tried many ways to show how certain artists became his favorites and how some faded out of his rotation. With the AI he ended up with a scrollable Sankey story of his listening, published on his dashboards site.
The AI modded the MP3 player he was about to throw away
He pulled an old MP3 player from the discard pile and modded it with AI's help. He says having an AI to mod with makes the hobby fun again.
The AI posts my work diary to Bluesky at the end of each session
He set up a Bluesky posting agent and checked it with AI, counting the 6 registered tools to confirm they matched. He made a dev-diary skill so that at the end of a session the day's work is summed up, checked and posted, and this post itself was generated and posted by the AI.
His training data from Strava now writes his monthly review
He linked his Strava data to the AI through the API and had it write his monthly triathlon review from the training notes he keeps. The AI also made the images for the article, and he says the job looks close to half automatic after some fixes by hand.
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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 tested about 20 models on my machine and found the best fit
He had the AI benchmark around 20 models on his own machine and give him a report comparing run speed and quality. After 7 hours of testing it said gpt-oss-20b was the best fit for his setup, and that is the one he chose.
Fable decoded a self playing piano file format and built an encoder and decoder for it
A man with a PianoDisc self playing piano gave Fable a music file he had bought from the maker's store. Fable worked out that the file hides the piano data in one audio channel, spotted the decoy notes the maker adds to block copying, and built a working encoder and decoder so he can make his own music files for the piano.
I built my first app with AI. It emails what is new on my media server.
A man built LatestArr with help from the AI, his first real app. The self hosted tool collects what is new across Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and his book, audiobook and game libraries and emails a clean digest, and he shared it as open source and asked for testers.
The AI deleted my container state. Four days of work were in it.
The Cowork integration appears to have deleted his AI container state. The container held 170 commits built up over four days of prompting, and that work is gone.
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Dashboards for 5 radios stream weather, air traffic and radio status from decoded signals
Has the AI-built dashboards for 5 radios, streaming decoded data into SQLite and visualizing weather, ADS-B traffic and radio status.
I cannot code, but I shipped a working game patch in 30 minutes
He is not a programmer, but he used AI to trace a bug through localization files, tech scripts and the game's internal category system. The AI hotfixed a deprecated modifier key in his Clausewitz engine mod, and he shipped a working patch in 30 minutes.
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 a Beets plugin so my playlists now make themselves
He wanted playlists made from the notes in his music file tags, like folk rock and cool, and his old bash script was not enough. The AI gave up and sent him to forums, then the AI wrote a Beets plugin and a config that now creates and updates his playlists on its own from those tags.
My agent is merging years of my writing with a friend into finished books
Two friends wrote fiction together in chat for years. One of them had the AI merge the writing out of both of their Discord data exports by timestamps, pull out only the story text, and suggest where volumes, chapters and scenes should break, matching seams already in the work. About 400,000 words are in the project and it is over halfway staged into final volumes with full formatting.
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The AI controls his iPhone and edits all his TikTok slideshows
He uses AI computer use to control his iPhone and edit all his TikTok slideshows. It frees his hands completely, and he spends that time reading books.
The AI fixed the database corruption that took my Plex server down
A long-running database corruption problem took his Plex server down that morning. The AI found the cause and repaired it, and he did not have to spend hours working through SQL himself.
Fill and submit UK master’s applications from one master file
A student built one file with his personal data, grades, language scores and certificates, then had the AI complete his UK master’s applications — selecting programs, auto-filling forms, asking only when data was missing, and cutting each application from 1–2 hours to under 10 minutes.
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