The AI wired into his FPGA boards and troubleshot the chip build to a workaround
The AI interfaced with FPGA boards over USB, set up UART, created an on-chip logic analyzer, and troubleshot a synthesis problem to a workaround.
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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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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 built my film showcase schedule and made the calendar events
He made the schedule for a film showcase through AI. It created the events with the exact running time of each film, the address, and the travel time, and he had it add a reminder to pick up the tickets.
The AI installed my GTA4 mods and picked the files that work together
He spent about 5 minutes picking the mods he wanted for GTA4. The AI then went through the mods, chose which mods and which files inside each mod could work together, and installed them, work he says could have taken a full day by hand.
Recompiling a classic SNES game with an agent's help
Recompiling the Lion King SNES game with an agent.
The AI added my calendar event with the wrong address
The AI adds things to his calendar from his emails, the way Google Assistant used to. Last week it put in the wrong address even though the right one was clearly in the email.
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The AI cataloged 20 years of my backups. 8.1 million files.
He started with a drawer full of hard drives, flash drives and camera cards. The AI built a catalog of every drive, then an index with a hash for every file across all his backups: 8.1 million files, 3.6 million of them unique, going back about 20 years.
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.
The AI invents and publishes a new word game every day and he does nothing
A man runs a word game site where the AI invents a new word game mechanic every day and publishes it with an example. He says he does nothing; the daily game appears on its own.
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