The AI patched his degraded VR game setup back to life in a few hours
Opened the AI and got his degraded GTA5 VR setup running again with custom patches for old bugs in a few hours.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasMy agent got a hacked e-paper price tag working and checked its own work
His AI agent got a modified fork of OpenEPaperLink running on a hacked 2.6 inch e-paper price tag within a few days. The agent then took a photo of the tag through a webcam to check its own work.
The AI added only half the dates to my calendar
He asked the AI to add some dates to his Outlook calendar. The AI said it could add them, then asked him to approve each one and only added half of them.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Migrate my old MacBook onto my new Mac mini while I do other things
Mike Rodriguez gave the AI his migration plan for moving an old M4 MacBook Pro onto a new M6 Mac mini, including what went to the cloud and how storage should split, then walked away. Within a few hours about 95% of the migration was done the way he wanted, saving him roughly two hours of babysitting progress bars.
2 hourssaved
We audited Datasette with AI and shipped two security releases
He ran an extensive audit of his Datasette software using AI Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, then fixed a range of bugs the audit found. The fixes went out as the Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases, and he told anyone running Datasette on a public website to upgrade.
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.
2 hourssaved
The AI ported about 7 classic Mac games, writing its own disassembly tools first
The AI ported about 7 classic 68k Mac games, writing its own 68k disassembly tools.
The AI moved my hosting. The AI broke the project first.
He used AI to move his hosting service. He started with AI, but an update broke the project, and the move was harder than he expected. With the AI's help he got through it, with a little left to finish.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI checked my blogs overnight for the PHP flaw and staged a backup
Worried by the day's PHP security news, he told the AI before bed to look into it and report in the morning. The AI read up on the flaw, checked what his hosting provider was saying, then logged into his WordPress blogs and checked them herself instead of taking the provider's word for it, with a backup already staged and ready in case a fix was needed.
He keeps his photography tool alive with an AI harness and dropped his Adobe subscription
Built and maintains a photography workflow tool with an AI coding harness and discontinued his Adobe subscription.
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