Turned a 20-year-old blog into a daily podcast
Cornell's third live demo on How I AI: The AI converted his 20-year-old blog into a daily podcast, an archive-repurposing use case for a long-running content creator.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasMy 10 year old phone games run again thanks to the AI
He bought a Humble Bundle of Android games 10 years ago, but they are 32-bit and will not run on his 64-bit phone. He asked the AI to decompile and recompile them, and the games work on his phone again.
Audit my own AI usage and show me where I waste tokens
A user built optimAIzr with AI, a local-only CLI that analyses his own LLM usage habits, flags costly or repeated patterns and estimates where he can cut tokens or spending. All data stays on his machine, and the tool adds live tips while he works.
Three days of the AI on a small home computer produced two working sites
He ran AI for three days on a headless ThinkCentre Tiny in the corner, driving it from a browser. Out came a learning page that walks through one job of an AI agent from order to approval to publishing, and a playable online photo darkroom where visitors expose their own photo and the file never leaves their browser.
The AI deployed his relay on Kubernetes and set up its uptime monitors
His Nostr relay moved from a single container to a Kubernetes cluster, redeployed by the AI with an uptime monitoring setup watching it. He reports the relay is faster and the migration went smoothly.
The AI built him a browser extension that sends articles to their archived version
Used the AI to make a browser extension that redirects articles to their archived version, which he uses instead of resubscribing.
His terminal app, rebuilt in Rust, uses a tenth of the memory of the web version
The AI and the AI mostly rebuilt his custom terminal app in Rust egui; text is sharp, it is fast and uses about 1/10th the RAM of the webview version.
Scrape my X bookmarks into a searchable Notion database every 6 hours
Jeston Lu built an AI that scrapes his saved X posts every six hours and auto-categorises them into a Notion database so the archive stays searchable, with screenshots of the database shared in his post. The build drew strong engagement (1.6k+ likes) as a fix for bookmarks piling up and being forgotten.
The AI reverse engineered a Eurorack module and rebuilt it as a Max4Live device
He downloaded the firmware of a popular Eurorack module, had the AI reverse engineer it, and then build a Max4Live device that runs the same logic. The whole job took 10 minutes and cost 10 dollars in tokens.
An agent skill ('PIL') that turns an Instagram saved collection into a private, searchable personal library
A builder created a skill that converts a user's Instagram saved collection into a private, searchable personal library. Every saved post is deep-read by vision AI, and everything runs on the user's own machine.
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