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.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Hobbies
Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasI said call Sarah. The AI tried to call a stranger named Gerald.
He told the AI to call Sarah. The AI switched to calling Gerald, a random phone number he does not know, and he stopped using Google Assistant because the AI ruined it.
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The AI fixed my VR headset setup on Linux and solved my debugging problem
The AI patched the MDQH app to work on Linux with his Bluetooth adapter, worked out how to keep certain permissions over ADB, and wrote a small APK that turns on wireless ADB by itself. He says debugging is now solved.
The 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.
An NBA stats warehouse built without him writing any of the code
Building an NBA stats warehouse without writing any of the code; the agent wrote it.
Run PC maintenance and organize my drives with AI
A SuperGrok subscriber reports doing a lot of PC maintenance and drive organization through AI, burning through only 33 percent of his usage allowance with four days still left in the cycle.
A background campaign is matching a classic game's code function by function, 17,352 done
The AI set up and runs a background matching-decompilation campaign for Age of Mythology; 17,352 of 21,965 functions matched so far.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
My smart ring sends voice notes to the AI, and the AI sorts my day
A man speaks voice notes into a smart ring during the day, and the AI sorts each note and sends it to the right place: memos and to-dos go to kintone, and answers come back on Slack and are read aloud. Every morning at 6 it sends him a summary of the day before, with the weather, the town garbage day, and what to take with him.
The AI built a writing practice sheet his daughter uses, picture and word bank included
A father had the AI build a standard writing practice template for his daughter, who reads well ahead of her level but still writes basic, sound-it-out spelling. The AI also makes the picture for each sheet. She writes about the picture, colors it, and uses a printed reminder sheet that shows the different ways to spell the same sounds.
The AI spotted a wrongly-set device alarm within minutes from the log
A DO alarm was accidentally set to a past time and retriggered immediately; the AI caught it within a couple of minutes from its log tail.
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