A free tool for drawing on brain scans, built with AI
She has been building SurfAnnotate with AI and two colleagues, a free browser tool that runs on Neurodesk. It makes drawing regions on cortical surfaces a lot easier for researchers.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasTranscribe my handwritten manuscript without steamrolling my corrections
In a governance essay, Jesse Hudson describes rebuilding his handwritten book manuscript with an AI that reads the pages and takes voice dictation; the piece never names the assistant. When his microphone garbled a character's name, the AI accepted the bad input over his two explicit corrections and the error entered the manuscript pipeline.
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The AI fixed my broken Plex app on my Chromecast
A Plex update broke the app on his Chromecast. Names and thumbnails overlapped and he could not move around in it. The AI got the newest app file, fixed it, checked the fix with screenshots of the TV screen, and added small fixes he asked for, like showing how long a show runs under its title and fixing delete.
I built an app that turns my saved articles into one EPUB
He saved articles and never read them, because on his phone he ended up on social media or email instead. So he built a reading app with AI and the AI that bundles his saved articles into one EPUB for his Xteink X4 Pro e-reader.
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 LLM cleans his dev machine's disk every day, deleting other tools' leftovers
Runs an LLM once a day on his dev VM to scan the disk and delete leftover garbage left by other harnesses.
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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Ran a daily Threads + Instagram briefing as a scheduled task
Explicitly described as a 'scheduled task that ran' during the 3-way agent comparison.
Ship an accessibility overhaul of my family arcade's chess board
The AI gave Fulton's family arcade, playfulton, an accessibility overhaul of its chess board with keyboard and screen-reader support. The work was tested locally, pushed and deployed to the live site.
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.
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