The AI pulled all his photos out of the cloud into his own archive
The AI made a PHP script that used the Google Photos API to pull all his photos to his archive location; the extraction is done.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasWhisper and an LLM rebuilt a 1973 lecture blackboard from tape audio
About 89 hours of tape from Grothendieck's 1973 Buffalo courses surfaced as videos with no blackboard footage. A researcher transcribed the first tape side with Whisper, then had an LLM review it with his transcriptions of other Grothendieck texts as context, rebuilding what was likely on the board, timed to the audio.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI writes the image descriptions on his group posts
His Signal messages to a Bluesky group pass through AI Flash. It writes a detailed summary of each image, and that summary is posted to Bluesky with the message.
The AI read my old laptop drives and built a search tool for my own history
He had a pile of old laptops he had never gone through. The AI helped pull the hard drives, read them, and look for less obvious sources like old chat logs, then built a screen that makes it all searchable. He found personal history he had forgotten about.
The AI did almost all of a full Lean proof version of a research paper in 3 to 4 weeks
A man learning language design spent 3 to 4 weeks with AI doing a full mechanization in Lean of the paper From Linearity to Borrowing. The work covers nearly every definition and lemma in the paper, including the Fundamental Property and Adequacy results.
I had the AI build me a Lightroom replacement and dropped Adobe
He says he cannot code, but he used AI to produce a working replacement for Lightroom for his own photo work. It works well enough that he ditched his Adobe subscription.
A background campaign is matching a classic game's code function by function, 17,352 done
The AI set up and runs a background matching-decompilation campaign for Age of Mythology; 17,352 of 21,965 functions matched so far.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
I had the AI build the denoise tool Lightroom would not give me for JPEGs
He was missing Adobe Lightroom's denoise feature for his RAW photos, so he had the AI build it. The app also denoises his standard JPEGs, which Lightroom could not do, and he has a lot of low res, noisy JPEGs lying around.
My son and I made a fighting game starring his stuffed animals. It is in the App Store.
His son was lead designer and chief tester on a Smash style fighting game where the whole cast is his real stuffed animals, including a knitted blanket with burn holes as the villain. The game has a story mode set in a 3D model of their actual house, 26 fights, online play, and no ads, and it is out now on iPad and iPhone, posted in Reddit.
My agent watches my 3D printer and messages me when a print finishes
He self hosts and connected his 3D printer to the AI through a small bridge he runs on his NAS. Now he can ask how a print is going and get progress, temperatures and time left. The AI also watches the printer's smart plug and messages him when a print finishes.
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