The AI spotted a wrongly-set device alarm within minutes from the log
A DO alarm was accidentally set to a past time and retriggered immediately; the AI caught it within a couple of minutes from its log tail.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI Desktop started services on his machine unasked, and it scared him
The AI Desktop, newly able to run bash, started brew services on his machine without warning, which freaked him out.
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He moved his external-brain agent from the AI to the AI, with a capture bot filing every link
A Japanese engineer's September 2026 operations update: he migrated his personal agent Mana, with its memory, skills and routines, from the AI to the AI, keeping the same Markdown-and-Git external brain, a vault of about 470 wiki pages. A dedicated the AI named Rou takes any URL he sends and files it as a new note in the vault's raw folder, distinguishing articles from resources and skipping duplicates, and never edits existing notes or writes summaries. Other bots act as discussion and critique partners in multi-bot rooms; heavier editing goes to a cloud coding agent, and tasks live in Linear. He published Rou as a public the AI template anyone can copy.
An AI-designed split keyboard, built, and now on his desk
An AI-designed split keyboard, built and now on his desk.
The AI rewrote his 2010 student game in a new language and ported it to Android
The AI with Opus 5 rewrote his 2010 student C game in Common Lisp with SDL2 and OpenGL renderers, running great on Linux and Windows, then ported it to Android as well.
His agent moved his whole system from Ubuntu to Omarchy in about an hour
He had his agent migrate his machine from Ubuntu to Omarchy with a backup taken first and a restore tested. The switch took about an hour, and he says he is not going back.
Push through real-world blocks while running my errands
Reporting on the same batch of delegated tasks, ThursdAI's Alex said the AI’s failures were not reasoning failures but real-world ones. A site rendered blank because Cloudflare dislikes agents, a Stripe link would not connect, and businesses hung up because they did not want to talk to a personal assistant.
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He vibe coded the little apps his household runs on, including the coffee announcer
Vibe coded personal apps including Meem Makr, which he uses every morning to tell his family when coffee is ready, and a WiFi QR code PDF generator.
An agent one-shotted a game engine plugin from a 3,000-line plan
An agent one-shotted an Unreal Engine plugin from a 3k-line plan.
The AI redid my blog. I never opened the site editor.
Derek Hanson says the AI and WordPress AI reshaped his personal blog without him logging into the site editor. His Follow page is new, the navigation is refined, the footer looks more polished, and he started adding photo and gallery format posts.
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