The AI set up his backups and proved them with a test restore
Used the AI to configure Kopia backups to a Hetzner storage box, then tested a restore to his desktop and validated it works.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasA fully local agent revived his collapsed social server after it ran out of disk mid-upgrade
Pointed a fully local agent at his collapsed Pleroma instance that had run out of storage mid-upgrade; the agent got it back up and running.
Planned a perfect Brooklyn day from hundreds of saved Instagram places, honoring
Kelly U (verified, 230K followers), a recent NYC mover with hundreds of saved Instagram places she never visited, asked her AI 'Ruby' to plan a Brooklyn day. Ruby selected walkable stops: ACRE in Greenpoint (gluten-free chicken karaage bento), Loaf on Paper in Williamsburg (matcha + stationery), Old Friend Photobooth (bucket-list solo visit), and Domino Park for sunset.
Hunted for jobs via a connected Gmail account: located the tester's resume
In PCMag's five-task comparison of the AI, the AI, and the AI, all three were given Gmail access and asked to find the reviewer's resume and search for relevant jobs. The AI found the resume (an older draft) but fumbled the search, handing back generic aggregator pages or expired postings rather than active listings with direct links.
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I moved my blog and its 2,262 posts with AI
He moved his Topedia blog from WordPress to EmDash on a Cloudflare Worker, with AI as his technical partner. They moved 2,262 posts, comments and pages in under 7 days, and the site now loads faster and is ready for Markdown.
A daily agent task digs through his phone logs and reports the misbehaving apps each morning
Runs a daily scheduled Antigravity task that ADB-connects to his phone over Tailscale, dumps all logs and analyses them for misbehaving apps, producing a morning report he then uses to ask the AI to fix issues.
Generated 5 cinematic camera angles and movements from a single photo
From one of his own photos, the AI produced 5 videos with 5 camera movements: low angle, Dutch, orbit, dolly, and more.
The AI turned an archived adventure game into a web version, then a 3D one
He pointed the AI at an Internet Archive copy of an old adventure game and got a web version of Neuromancer, then a 3D version.
Set a fantasy football lineup via a connected Yahoo Fantasy account: filed
A Yahoo Fantasy football manager asked the AI to set their weekly lineup. The AI filed a waiver claim for the Chiefs defense, dropped Green Bay, and started Kansas City once the claim cleared.
I had the AI remake a game I loved as a kid
He asked the AI to make a modern version of Rescue Raiders, an old game he loved as a kid, with new graphics, goals and tech trees. The AI went back and forth with critic and art agents until it was done, and the finished game is live for anyone to play.
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