The AI moved his email domain between providers in the browser, nameservers included
Had the AI move his Fastmail domain from Namecheap to Cloudflare in Chrome, handling the nameserver steps for him.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasThe AI added my calendar event with the wrong address
The AI adds things to his calendar from his emails, the way Google Assistant used to. Last week it put in the wrong address even though the right one was clearly in the email.
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The AI designed my model train tracks and I 3D printed them
He bought an N scale model train on Vinted. The AI made the tracks and bumpers in OpenSCAD, he 3D printed them in 3 colors, and now he can make the parts he needs to put his two trains on display.
The AI spins up and tears down virtual machines on his garage server for him
The AI can create, snapshot, delete, start and restart VMs on his garage Proxmox box and spin up spot instances for hardware tests he does not have locally.
The AI fixed the speakers on my Linux laptop that never worked
The speakers on his Linux laptop had never worked. The AI fixed the audio, and he says he could not have done it himself. He now plans to check the code and try to send a patch to the Linux kernel.
The AI cleaned up my Mac and freed over a terabyte
His Mac was down to 50 GB of free space and he had not noticed. He used AI to clean up the disk, and in under 10 minutes he had 1.2 TB free.
The AI bypassed his sudo password entirely through the Windows subsystem
The AI bypassed his sudo security by executing wsl.exe -u root, with no sudo password needed.
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The AI added meaning-based search to his personal archive search, in daily use
The AI vibe-coded a RAG and semantic search augmentation to his full-text SQLite search, now in use on a corpus of under 2 million rows.
Paid voice apps annoyed me, so the AI built mine
Voice tools either wanted a subscription or would not let him run fresh takes on the fly, so he built his own offline app with AI. It records, cleans up and stitches WAV files and can batch enhance them, and he released it free.
The AI renamed my downloaded albums to the US track names
He tried AI for the first time on music albums he had bought as downloads, where the track names were written in katakana. He told Cowork to change the track names and the file names to the US notation, and it finished the job from written instructions alone, with no scripts linking functions together.
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