The AI tears through the apps on his phone, adding the features he wants
Uses the AI to reverse-engineer phone APKs and add the features he wants, tearing through the apps on his phone.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasThe AI tracked down his years-old 4K display fault and left him a tool that fixes it
The AI diagnosed a long-standing 4K display issue and he now has a CLI tool that fixes it.
I gave my agent my API key and lost $100
He installed the AI and connected OpenRouter, and thought the agent was just expensive to run. Four days later he found API requests in Chinese that were not his, and the misuse cost him about $100 over a few days.
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The AI built a Beets plugin so my playlists now make themselves
He wanted playlists made from the notes in his music file tags, like folk rock and cool, and his old bash script was not enough. The AI gave up and sent him to forums, then the AI wrote a Beets plugin and a config that now creates and updates his playlists on its own from those tags.
Built a trade-alpha dashboard from confirmation emails benchmarked against SPY
Someone had the AI build a trade-alpha dashboard from his trade confirmation emails and benchmark the results against SPY. The agent turned scattered confirmations into a performance benchmark.
Scrub my phone number off data-broker sites, on a schedule
A directory-listed the AI called Spam-Call Scrubber finds its owner’s phone number on people-search and data-broker sites, submits the opt-outs, finishes the confirmations, and re-checks on a schedule. It replaces a paid data-removal service with a standing bot.
An agent reverse engineered a CAD tool's interface to dodge its API pricing
Made Astra reverse-engineer Onshape's UI to build a middle-man extension exposing an API that bypasses the official API pricing, now used for AI CAD with AI and the AI.
The AI pilots his old phone over USB, booting candidate kernels and grading the results
Has the AI piloting his OnePlus 6T over adb, booting new candidate kernels and checking the results.
The AI tested about 20 models on my machine and found the best fit
He had the AI benchmark around 20 models on his own machine and give him a report comparing run speed and quality. After 7 hours of testing it said gpt-oss-20b was the best fit for his setup, and that is the one he chose.
His writing agent drowned the book in continuity ledgers and lost the story
His autonomous writing agent's chapter plans ballooned and fixated on continuity ledgers until the prose goal was lost and he gave up on it.
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