The AI built replacement road trip games for his dad
His dad lost the magnetic board games he used on road trips. He had the AI research and build simple digital versions of the games, and his dad plays them now.
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 is sorting out my NAS. It holds 30 backups and years of syncs.
He has the AI dedupe and reorganize his NAS. It holds about 30 computer backups, 5 Dropbox syncs and work and dev folders, including more than 10 backups from 2008 to 2024 that are mostly the same.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI set up ad blocking DNS on his smart TV over a debug connection
He had the AI configure his smart TV through its debug connection to use a filtered DNS service. Ads on the TV stopped, which he jokes is either a great morning or the start of a robot uprising.
The AI rebuilt the phone puzzle game his wife was fed up with, with no ads
A man's wife liked a phone puzzle game but got fed up when it kept demanding she watch ads to keep playing. The AI rebuilt the game as one web page with a daily challenge, all time stats and as many puzzles as she wants, with no ads and a cat theme, for about $25 in token costs.
$25one time
The AI built the HTML editor I could not find anywhere
He needed a free HTML editor to paste in HTML code from the AI, but the ones he found were poor. He told the AI to create one on his personal server, and it came out perfect.
The AI cracked an Enigma message after scanning 82 million combinations in 45 minutes
The AI in Antigravity built an Enigma decryption program, fetched repos, ran an 82M combination scan and decrypted the message in about 45 minutes.
45 minsaved
The AI built my greeting app, then scheduled it daily without asking me
While teaching a secure coding class, she asked the AI to build a small app that greets her with a compliment and a quote every morning. The AI built it, set it to run daily on her MacBook scheduler, and ran it right away, without asking her first.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Claim the free Epic Games titles for me every Thursday
The AI claims the week's free games from the Epic Games Store for the user on a recurring Thursday schedule, so the freebies are never missed.
The AI stood up 4 unfamiliar server services in 2 days, a week of work compressed
Used the AI to get 4 unfamiliar Proxmox LXC services working, drafting configs and VPN-only firewall rules in 2 days instead of about a week.
An LLM maintains his research document and the pipeline that rebuilds its figures
An LLM maintains his org and LaTeX work document, an external library and CLI, and a Makefile and Snakemake pipeline that regenerates content and figures and puts numerical results into LaTeX macros.
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