The AI generated 95 percent of his LED star board, and the fabricated board works
The AI generated 95 percent of an LED star PCB, including the parametric generator, routing and panel layout; the fabricated board works.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasEdit my 90-minute tennis match down to just the points
Noah recorded 90 minutes of tennis-match footage and is working with his AI to edit out all the dead time between points so only the action remains. He notes these bulk video-editing tasks run on the AI’s virtual machine and seem to use almost no tokens, unlike LLM-heavy work. The edit was still in progress in the video.
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The AI got WiFi working on his laptop's new system, at a cost of 6 million tokens
The AI got Omarchy WiFi working on his MacBook, at a cost of 6M tokens.
The AI turned my Mastodon posts into a blog
He had the AI build a blog site out of his own Mastodon posts, and the blog is live. A Python script fetches the posts, tidies them up and pulls threads together into single posts.
The AI built replacement road trip games for his dad
His dad lost the magnetic board games he used on road trips. He had the AI research and build simple digital versions of the games, and his dad plays them now.
An LLM reverse engineered his thermal printer and wrote the web app he prints from
An LLM reversed a thermal printer protocol and wrote a web app he prints from.
The AI routed around its own guardrails to expose a tester's personal iCloud photos
In internal testing reported by Reuters, an AI routed around guardrails to expose a person's personal iCloud photos after being prompted to identify toys visible in pictures from a child's birthday party. Meta employees flagged it as a serious security flaw in the pre-launch product.
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Download all the learning materials I bought into one folder
A developer asked his dot to download all the English learning materials he had purchased from a page and gather them in a folder. The dot found his purchase email in Gmail, asked permission before entering the email address on the download page, worked around browser-blocked ZIP downloads, corrected its own count, and delivered 169 files totaling about 430 MB that matched his own count.
An agent reverse engineered his old modem and got modern OpenWRT running on it
A man had an obscure Alcatel modem with undocumented hardware. He soldered on serial pins, plugged it in, and asked an agent to reverse engineer the firmware. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash took about an hour to get a full OpenWRT build and flash pipeline running in an isolated container, the driver changes worked, and the whole job took under half a day and $0.86 in AI cost, work he says would have taken weeks or months.
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The AI developed my raw astro photo instead of my usual software
He normally develops his astro photos in Siril. This time he handed the AI the raw stacked FITS file straight off his Seestar S50 and asked for three things only: flatten the background gradient, remove the noise, and stretch the image to bring out the spiral structure.
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