I had the AI build me a Lightroom replacement and dropped Adobe
He says he cannot code, but he used AI to produce a working replacement for Lightroom for his own photo work. It works well enough that he ditched his Adobe subscription.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasWeeks of work produced a human-guided AI proof with a 100,000-line formalisation
Worked weeks on an AI-generated, human-guided proof of Hilbert-Smith with a complete 100k LOC Lean4 formalization, rushed out after OpenAI's release.
The AI deleted my container state. Four days of work were in it.
The Cowork integration appears to have deleted his AI container state. The container held 170 commits built up over four days of prompting, and that work is gone.
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The AI moved my whole Twitter archive into my Day One journal
He left Twitter in 2022 and had wanted his archive in the Day One journal app ever since. The AI did the import in an hour, and that time included backing up his databases first in case anything went wrong.
The AI read his 1993 Amiga game’s assembly code and ported it to Godot in an evening
A man took the Amiga game he built in Baghdad in 1993, written in 68000 assembly, and had the AI Fable 5 read the code and port it to Godot. The port took an evening, a few more weekends got the feel right, and he released the original game for free alongside it.
The AI wired into his FPGA boards and troubleshot the chip build to a workaround
The AI interfaced with FPGA boards over USB, set up UART, created an on-chip logic analyzer, and troubleshot a synthesis problem to a workaround.
The AI scraped my Kindle library and built a spreadsheet of all 2,051 books
She had the AI use the AI for Chrome extension to scrape her whole Kindle library on Amazon. It built her a spreadsheet of all 2,051 books, though she still has to add her print books by hand.
The AI could not sort the pages of my gig cheat sheet
He built a Word document of cheat sheets for 40 songs for a gig the next day, each song title in Heading 1 style with the lyrics and chords below. He told the AI to sort the pages by that heading text, keeping the text as it was, and the AI could not do it. He says the graphics in the document block the sort.
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Monitored a crypto wallet via its Xpub every 30 minutes and flagged
The AI derives public addresses from the Xpub (no transfer access) to catch hacks or seed-phrase compromise fast.
Sent 25 brand outreach emails with metrics and set 3-day automated follow-ups
Bybatee's AI agent 'squishy' sent 25 outreach emails to brands in her niche — with her metrics, portfolio, and media kit attached — and set automated follow-ups after 3 days for non-responses.
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