An AI sysadmin bot with root access runs his servers, directed from his phone
Made an AI sysadmin bot with root SSH that runs hourly health checks, Monday 6am updates with rollback, firewall, nginx and site fixes he triggers from his phone.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI writes our family calendar fresh every morning
He made a family calendar app that grabs the family Google Calendar feed and turns it into a dashboard for a Raspberry Pi or any spare screen at home. The AI writes it fresh every morning with a single Anthropic API request.
The AI audited and corrected a family-tree project
The AI audited the author's family-tree project against documents, removed errors, added newly found documents, and added a generational link the author had missed.
Generate parallel exam versions B, C and D from my master quiz
A grade-10 science teacher describes his out-of-classroom reliance in a post asking if he is the only one: he writes the master version of each quiz or exam, then has the AI produce versions B, C and D with the question order shuffled and the calculation values - or even the chemical formulas - slightly changed, so neighboring students get genuinely different papers. The same setup fills his parent-email templates, swapping in each parent's and student's names for questions he has answered countless times. He double-checks everything before it goes out.
The AI built a tool that syncs his GoodReads updates to BookHive
He used AI to create a small tool on val.town that automatically syncs his GoodReads updates to BookHive. The val.town blog featured the tool as one of his experiments.
My agent scans my home lab nightly and keeps the inventory current
He connected the AI to NetBox so the agent does his home lab documentation. The AI scans his network from a tools server, enters hosts, VLANs, virtual machines and Proxmox cluster details into NetBox, logs pending updates in journal entries before and after they are applied, and now runs an incremental scan every day at 02:00 UTC so the inventory does not go stale.
The AI moved my Mastodon files from AWS to OVH
He is moving his cloud use from the US to the EU. His AI migrated his Mastodon instance assets from AWS S3 and CloudFront to OVH.
He had an agent lock down his home network and check the DMZ
He got Astra to go through his network and DMZ. It confirmed all port forwarding was off, hardened his media services, and found 5 PHP apps on the network, none of them running.
An LLM read a pencil sketch, built antenna models, and ran the simulation
A ham radio operator had a frontier LLM read his pencil sketch of an antenna, build NEC models from it, test and iterate on numerical stability until the approximation held together, and then run a real simulation that answered his questions. He uses the same approach for SPICE circuit simulation.
The AI built me to-do and budget apps that fit my brain
He used AI to build his own to-do and budgeting apps that work the way his brain works, after never finding apps that suited him. The AI also taught him how to sideload them onto his phone, and he calls it a game changer.
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