Created a personal AI podcast
Leslie Samuel put the AI to work on 11 real tasks with screen recordings, showing what worked and what needs supervision. One was generating his own personal AI podcast.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI researched a case's dimensions and produced the printable file
The AI researched the dimensions for a case he needed and produced a case STL; boring but functional.
The AI decrypted his two-factor export and freed his codes from a locked app
The AI decrypted the CSV file Authy sent in a GDPR data request; he moved his 2FA codes to Ente and can now export them at will.
The AI built me a tool that turns my Bluesky threads into files for Obsidian
Saving his Bluesky threads as Markdown files for Obsidian was a chore he kept doing by hand. He asked the AI to build a converter, and the finished tool is up on his site for anyone to use.
The AI edited his live website from voice directions on his phone
The AI, directed by voice from his phone, made live edits to his website and the page refreshed with the fix.
Rebuild your own broken connector and finish the weekly update
A user's notes MCP was down - his own mistake - when his agent decided finishing the request mattered more: it researched the Joplin API, wrote, refactored, and debugged a 400-plus-line Python tool across five files, then used it to read his notes and write its weekly update markdown into Joplin as planned.
An AI coded driver broke my system file. Five hours to fix.
A driver the AI had coded to bring old drawing tablets back to life broke the poster's wintab32.dll file, even though the app it was based on never touches that file. Fixing it took 5 hours.
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The AI got a 30-year-old game running headless and playtested it in parallel
The AI hacked a headless runner for a 30 year old game and ran parallel instances in the background to playtest it.
Read my 17 years of Facebook posts and write a profile of my life
Creator Wendell Yu says the AI read his 17 years of Facebook posts and wrote a profile report of his life from them. The segment is the first of five first-hand cases in the video.
I had the AI build the screen printing software I actually wanted
He used AI to build software for color separation, halftoning and layer editing for his screen prints. It is built around his own way of working, and he says it has made him a better artist.
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.