The AI set up his media cluster with storage, shares and a VPN container
The AI configured his arr stack plus NFS mounts, share templates and a VPN init-container in Kubernetes; the cluster is now easy to manage and debug.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasThe AI could not get a single game mod of mine to work
He tried to mod his game with AI, which asked for his game files and offered XML mods. So far not one of the mods has worked.
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Build my own desktop image editor in five weeks
A creator who fixes AI-generated images in ComfyUI had the AI build him a full desktop editor, Scumble, over five weeks starting September 4: 632 commits and about 83,000 lines of app code, tested against his own pictures. It reached 43 releases and a Microsoft Store listing, and every feature doubles as a command an agent can call.
The AI fixes my music library for me through my own tool
He built a small web tool on top of an API for his music library, with an MCP connection. He can ask the AI to check for missing artwork, sort out the genres, or fix the track numbers.
I asked the AI to make the piano more expressive and it did
She gave the AI a music score file and asked it to make the piano more expressive, saying a large part of it was pulsing the big beats in 6/4, and told it it could download YouTube videos for reference. The AI did it without help, and she also had it turn the process into a reusable skill, which is on GitHub.
The AI helped write the scripts that tested a puzzle image for hidden data
A puzzle solver designed tests for whether a circulated image hid steganographic data, and used AI to help write the scripts and qualify signal and noise across JPG compression formats. He ran the tests with standard tools on every copy of the image he could find, and nothing extracted from any of them, which settled that the image itself carries no hidden payload.
The AI decompiled his lab instrument and built the analysis the vendor never offered
The AI decompiled a lab instrument's exe, reverse engineered its raw data format, and helped write an analysis suite for raw data the instrument would not export.
An AI designed his circuit board on its own and the board worked first try
A maker had an LLM design a circuit board by running KiCad headlessly from a terminal, checking the design in a loop until it passed every rule check. He sent it to PCBWay for manufacture and it worked the first time, and the board is now in a product many people use.
The AI is fixing my slow SSD by repartitioning it
His SSD had become very slow at writing. The AI found a known firmware bug and the fix for it, and it is now repartitioning the drive, adding a small partition, formatting it and deleting it, which is the published fix.
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My agent watches my 3D printer and messages me when a print finishes
He self hosts and connected his 3D printer to the AI through a small bridge he runs on his NAS. Now he can ask how a print is going and get progress, temperatures and time left. The AI also watches the printer's smart plug and messages him when a print finishes.
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