His whole machine fleet is being converted by AI, which writes the missing packages itself
Converting all his VMs and containers to NixOS entirely using AI; the AI creates the Nix flakes and makes missing packages itself.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Hobbies
Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasOpus finished the circuit board that had sat 90 percent done for 6 months
Opus finished a first PCB that had sat at 90 percent done for 6 months.
The AI sorts and files each piece I draft into my Obsidian vault
He drafts in an AI app, and the AI itself sorts each piece, tags it, and moves it word for word into his Obsidian vault using a skill he built. The filing runs as part of how he writes.
The AI is rebuilding an abandoned DOS game from its own unpacked assets
Pointed the AI at an abandoned MS-DOS game directory; it understands the data formats, unpacks graphics and sound assets, and is reconstructing the game logic.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
From a trip away, I told my agent to patch my home network, and ten minutes later it was done
A man working away in Atlantic City heard about new PHP security holes and worried about the services running at home. Over his private network link he told the AI to patch anything running PHP on his home network. Ten minutes later everything at home was patched.
Four months of spare time with AI, and the hiking game I always wanted is live
He spent about four months of spare time building Switchback, a cozy hiking simulator like old park management games, with AI writing the code and judging the look of the assets. It ingests real map heights to build its trails, and has its own water, wind and day and night systems. He launched it on iPhone and iPad yesterday and people are playing it.
Make me a complete visual novel with generated images
A user asked the AI for a visual novel and the agent found ComfyUI on the machine, worked out how to generate images locally with LM Studio, and asked permission to go online to install RenPy. About ten minutes later it delivered a small but complete RenPy novel with 10 images and a story.
The AI decoded his area's trunked radio channels with a signal dongle and public data
The AI used rtl-sdr tools, wrote Python scripts to analyze signals, and built a SQLite database from FCC licensor data to identify and decode trunked voice channels.
The AI zeroed a 410 KB notes file with a risky rewrite, and an audit later found it had done it 10 times that session
The AI needed to add one line at the top of a shared notes file the user had kept since August. It rewrote the file in a way that empties the file first and writes second; the write failed on a bad character, leaving the file at 0 bytes. The file survived only because an outside backup existed. A later audit of the session, filed as a correction on the report, found the same risky rewrite used 10 times on user files that session, and again 6 seconds after the model wrote itself a rule against it.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
I sent my study guide to my agent and it built me a quiz site to practise on
A high school student sent his study guide PDF to the AI and had it build a website with a quiz style practice interface using the guide's own questions. He says it works well and beats making practice sets by hand when time is short.
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.