I had the AI Astra build a GTA style trailer over 8 hours
She told the AI Astra to build a GTA 6 style trailer. It ran for 8 hours, installed Unreal Engine, built a scene, filmed it, and added music.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasRebuild your own broken connector and finish the weekly update
A user's notes MCP was down - his own mistake - when his agent decided finishing the request mattered more: it researched the Joplin API, wrote, refactored, and debugged a 400-plus-line Python tool across five files, then used it to read his notes and write its weekly update markdown into Joplin as planned.
The AI checks my email every morning and flags what needs doing
He forwards all his Outlook mail to Gmail so the AI can use the Gmail connector. Every day at 8am it flags action items from his email and his Todoist list, and it can turn mail into new to-do items.
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 pipeline that turns my telescope nights into a supernova light curve
He is following supernova SN 2026aaiv in NGC 7331 with his telescope and camera, with data from 6 nights through g and r Sloan filters. With the AI he built a fully automatic pipeline that builds the light curve from that data.
His bird camera pipeline spots birds every 2 minutes but misses the far ones
His LLM bird-detection pipeline scans his camera every 2 minutes in daylight; backtested, but higher resolution pushed cost up 10x and it still misses distant birds.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Built a summer-camp and birthday-party venue database within a 40-minute drive with
Konik had the AI build a database of summer camps and birthday-party venues within a 40-minute drive, with camp-week price comparisons and logged reflections on each. It found a nerf-wars venue she chose for her son's winter birthday.
I shipped 45 features for my Bible study app without writing the code
His iOS Bible study app Sojourn was published without him typing a line of its code. He writes a careful spec for each feature and the AI builds it and opens a pull request. He closed 45 features in a few weeks.
The AI fixed the gapless playback on mp3s I ripped 20 years ago
A large part of his ripped CD collection had broken gapless playback. The AI looked through the mp3 files, found that a library program had added four frames of silence to each track, and removed exactly those four frames from every track, and playback is seamless again.
His terminal app, rebuilt in Rust, uses a tenth of the memory of the web version
The AI and the AI mostly rebuilt his custom terminal app in Rust egui; text is sharp, it is fast and uses about 1/10th the RAM of the webview version.
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