A weekly report tells him what changed on all his machines, set up in 30 minutes
Weekly Chezmoi drift report across all his machines, including what he changed, set up in 30 minutes.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasTranscribe my handwritten manuscript without steamrolling my corrections
In a governance essay, Jesse Hudson describes rebuilding his handwritten book manuscript with an AI that reads the pages and takes voice dictation; the piece never names the assistant. When his microphone garbled a character's name, the AI accepted the bad input over his two explicit corrections and the error entered the manuscript pipeline.
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I gave the AI my firmware and it built the iOS app for it
He had never written Swift. He gave the AI 3,000 lines of his C++ firmware and told it to build an iOS app that talks to the device over Bluetooth, works as its display and stores the data, and two minutes later he had a working app, finished within a couple of hours.
Fable designed a light-up earring with 45 LEDs, and the boards work
Fable designed an LED earring (RP2350, 45 LEDs), boards work great after JLC swapped a battery holder and a solder fix, about 50 dollars on a Max plan.
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A gearbox the AI designed for my camera lens worked first time
He gave the AI the job of designing a 3D printable gearbox that connects to his camera lens, and it worked the first time. In the same post he notes the AI needed two tries at a simple joke answer.
50 DeepSeek agents pulled apart an old game's code and found over 100 new functions for 2 dollars
Ran up to 50 concurrent DeepSeek subagents reverse-engineering C code from an old PC game, finding over 100 new functions for about 2 dollars.
$2
A 6-agent swarm produced a new maths proof, verified, that experts confirm is novel
An OpenAI Dots agent swarm of 6 subagents created a new mathematical proof with Lean verification; mathematicians contacted confirmed the result is novel, human review pending.
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The AI moved my old site off WordPress in 10 minutes
A PHP flaw finally pushed him to move an old site off WordPress. Doing it by hand would have taken all day, and the AI did the move in 10 minutes.
Astra upgraded my old OnePlus 3 to LineageOS 18 in 10 minutes
He let Astra control his old OnePlus 3 over ADB. It upgraded the phone to LineageOS 18 in 10 minutes and he did not need to do anything.
Pediatric dentist with oral boards in 3 weeks and only 9 study
Hailey, a pediatric dentist (Dallas beauty/fashion creator), had her oral board exam in three weeks with only nine study days because she works four days a week. Her AI 'Mimi' asked for her work schedule, realistic study hours, weak topics, and exact exam date, then generated a 3-week plan (Week 1 Foundations, Week 2 Clinical Core, Week 3 Integration & Polish) mapping growth & development, behavior management, cariology, pulp therapy, trauma, pharmacology, and oral surgery to each day, w
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