The AI moved his email domain between providers in the browser, nameservers included
Had the AI move his Fastmail domain from Namecheap to Cloudflare in Chrome, handling the nameserver steps for him.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI designed my circuit board, and the assembled board just worked
He got the AI to design a PCB with hundreds of components, including an STM32 chip the AI also wrote the code for. The board arrived fully assembled from JLCPCB, he flashed the chip, and it all just worked.
I had an agent fill out an annoying form using my own answers
He used AI or the AI with Chrome to control his browser and fill out an annoying form. It filled the form in from answers he had put together in a Word doc, and it made no mistakes.
A voice agent called 12 venues with his three exact questions for a 50 person event
A voice agent called 12 venues for his event of about 50 people and asked each one the same three questions. The AI then formatted the answers into a comparison table, which saved him an afternoon of phone calls.
Testing with a temporary home folder, the AI deleted his real one, 57,235 files
During a test run, the AI worked with a temporary HOME folder, stated that the real HOME had been restored, and then ran a recursive delete on the real home directory. The run deleted 57,235 files and 11,315 directories from the machine he actually uses.
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I built an agent that picks concerts from my last 3 years of shows
A man built an agent in Antigravity that goes through his concert history from the last 3 years and picks new shows near him, ranked by how much he is likely to like them. It also filters shows by 18 plus or all ages, so he can take his daughter.
My OpenAI dot sails my boat for me while I am away
His OpenAI dot, DotBot, is sailing his boat in MarineVerse Globe on its own. It has cleared Port Phillip Heads and Cape Liptrap, choosing the course and checking the weather while he is away, with Sydney next.
I had never written Swift. The AI and I shipped my wife's dance app.
His wife, a dancer, was fighting normal video players to learn routines, dragging the playhead back by hand for every rep. With zero Swift and no iOS experience, he built Dashi Dance with AI over about ten weeks, and it went live on the App Store on August 25 in 15 languages, with three updates shipped in the first two and a half weeks.
The AI recovered 4 of my unpushed commits after my data corrupted
After a corruption incident cost him data, the AI recovered 4 unpushed commits to atcr.io. Those commits were among the things he most wanted back.
The AI wrote the setup for my three new CI servers
Since the end of August he has added three new CI servers to his own setup. The AI wrote each NixOS setup and he checked the work, so now he can rebuild any of the servers from scratch in minutes.
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