The AI turned an archived adventure game into a web version, then a 3D one
He pointed the AI at an Internet Archive copy of an old adventure game and got a web version of Neuromancer, then a 3D version.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI recorded the audiobook that did not exist for his favourite translation
The AI created an audiobook for him from the Robin Buss translation of The Count of Monte Cristo, which had no audiobook.
Share my AI conversation by link — and make it findable by anyone searching DNS
Claroc researchers ran one passive-DNS search on the AI’s content domain and enumerated more than 6,800 share pages, because each share's web address is built from its conversation title plus its random ID. Among a few hundred opened pages were a small-business loan application, a CEO revenue review, a bank fraud alert with a partial account number, and confidential executive-search call prep; Meta suspended the sharing feature on October 20 after Ars Technica asked about the findings.
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The AI tends his system configs, easy to back out when wrong
Used the AI to develop his NixOS configs; switched in June, the setup has been superb and issues are easy to back out.
The AI set up his whole media stack in an hour on an old mini PC
The AI set up the whole arr stack for him in an hour on an older NUC under Proxmox.
He fed paper into a scanner for two hours while the AI ran it and catalogued his documents
He wanted to digitize his papers. The AI worked out how to use his feed scanner, and for about two hours he sat feeding pages in while the AI ran the scanner and catalogued the documents. He could talk to it through a conference speaker and watch it work in VS Code.
A weekly report tells him what changed on all his machines, set up in 30 minutes
Weekly Chezmoi drift report across all his machines, including what he changed, set up in 30 minutes.
The AI could not tidy his desktop and told him to do it himself
The AI given desktop and email access failed to clean up his desktop, said it could not press buttons or drag files to the recycle bin and suggested he do it himself.
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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.
The AI read 100-year-old service manuals and caught errors in them and in his own reading
The AI interpreted scanned old service manuals and circuit diagrams, ran simulation experiments to verify manual claims, cross-checked datasheets and papers, caught typos and his own misreadings.
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