The AI minds his graphics drivers after every update and caught a bad kernel before reboot
The AI fixes his Flatpak and Nvidia driver sync after updates, and caught a crashed update that left a wrong kernel for his GPU drivers before he rebooted.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasMy AI designed circuit boards came back from the factory working first time
He has done a couple of circuit boards using AI and Fable. Each one came back from manufacture working first time, which he says beats his own success rate doing boards by hand.
His cron jobs read the access logs, judge abuse with an LLM, and email the provider
Assembled crons that pull his access logs, process them through an LLM and notify the WHOIS abuse contact.
Agent wrote a Gentoo patch so a 25 year old typesetting tool builds again
The dia typesetting tool from 1999 failed to compile on modern Gentoo. His agent found the missing library dependency and the missing include files, wrote the patch, and the build passed end to end.
Track my reading goal and add books to my list
AI engineer Sajal Sharma built an AI on Telegram that tracks his tasks and notes and handles scheduled work. On camera he asked for a project overview, checked progress toward a reading goal, and had the assistant search the web for a book series and add the books it found to his reading list.
Write a driver so my old printer works on the new macOS
An old printer orphaned by macOS 27 got a second life: The AI wrote the driver while using its owner as the diagnostic instrument - asking him to judge whether each line was progressively less visible, whether page one's DPI was lower - until the printer printed correctly again.
The AI made me a useful file manager for my Amiga
The AI built him a file manager app for the Amiga's Workbench system. He says it is genuinely useful and powerful, with the best parts of Windows Explorer and OSX Finder.
The AI helped me put all 2,400 Mappery posts into categories
He used AI to sort all 2,400 posts on his Mappery site into categories. The site now has a Categories menu that shows the posts in each category.
GPT scans his computer for new security flaws and patches it
He gave GPT a security audit skill that checks his machine against newly published vulnerabilities, patches what it can, and warns him about the rest. He runs it whenever new CVEs land, and says the patches need care because a fix can cause as much trouble as the flaw.
The AI Dispatch instantly ends every task on one Windows PC host
A Max subscriber uses AI Dispatch from his iPhone: on his daily Windows PC tasks run normally, but on his Windows 11 Pro server PC every dispatched message instantly returns "Task ended" and no task ever starts, even though regular Cowork tasks run fine on that machine. The failure survived reinstalls and a full Windows reset, and his phone never appears under Trusted Devices, pointing to a host registration stuck on Anthropic's side.
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