The AI decrypted his two-factor export and freed his codes from a locked app
The AI decrypted the CSV file Authy sent in a GDPR data request; he moved his 2FA codes to Ente and can now export them at will.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasMy agent is merging years of my writing with a friend into finished books
Two friends wrote fiction together in chat for years. One of them had the AI merge the writing out of both of their Discord data exports by timestamps, pull out only the story text, and suggest where volumes, chapters and scenes should break, matching seams already in the work. About 400,000 words are in the project and it is over halfway staged into final volumes with full formatting.
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The AI got a 30-year-old game running headless and playtested it in parallel
The AI hacked a headless runner for a 30 year old game and ran parallel instances in the background to playtest it.
His kids designed a game mod. The AI wrote the code at night.
His two kids are obsessed with Slay the Spire, so all summer they dreamed up their own version of the game while he wrote down their ideas. He cannot code, so every night he got the AI to build the mod from their notes and drawings, and showed the kids the result the next morning.
Fix my Spotify after my kids wrecked it
Told as a personal aside in a product interview, OpenAI's Kath Korevec describes fixing her Spotify after her kids wrecked it, using AI with computer use plus Reddit research (segment from 12:28). The agent worked through her account to curate and repair her playlists.
Sort my 507 PDFs into 13 subfolders
In a hands-on test on a $20-a-month Google AI Pro account, the AI renamed and organised a folder of 507 PDFs into 13 subfolders. The session drew a broad warning that granting folder access could include sharing the folder's contents with third parties, plus a notice that backups of connected files would be deleted after a follow-up or 24 hours.
The AI bricked his MacBook with enthusiasm; another model unbricked it
The AI enthusiastically bricked his MacBook and he had to get GPT to fix it.
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The AI turned my Mastodon posts into a blog
He had the AI build a blog site out of his own Mastodon posts, and the blog is live. A Python script fetches the posts, tidies them up and pulls threads together into single posts.
Fill and submit UK master’s applications from one master file
A student built one file with his personal data, grades, language scores and certificates, then had the AI complete his UK master’s applications — selecting programs, auto-filling forms, asking only when data was missing, and cutting each application from 1–2 hours to under 10 minutes.
The AI wrote thousands of lines of 3D tooling in a week, fixing models from his marked-up renders
The AI wrote thousands of lines of Blender Python over a week for mesh inspection and cleanup, fixing parts from his annotated render previews.
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