The AI wrote the setup for my three new CI servers
Since the end of August he has added three new CI servers to his own setup. The AI wrote each NixOS setup and he checked the work, so now he can rebuild any of the servers from scratch in minutes.
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Hobbies
Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasOrganize my Downloads folder
A commenter reports that a friend asked the AI to organize and delete files in Downloads to free up space. It deleted important files that had no other copies.
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The AI translates whole retro games into English for me
He points the AI at a folder holding a game ROM and an emulator and gives it a standing prompt: translate the whole game, keep the text on screen, and change nothing about how the game plays. The AI does the translation and tests it in the emulator itself, and he turns the finished work into a patch file so other players can use the translation without anyone sharing the game itself.
Monitored a crypto wallet via its Xpub every 30 minutes and flagged
The AI derives public addresses from the Xpub (no transfer access) to catch hacks or seed-phrase compromise fast.
The AI added a chat server to his self-hosting stack in about 20 minutes
The AI with OpenTofu and Docker added Prosody to his self-hosting stack in about 20 minutes; it works.
He built a working Nostr app by talking to his agent for 48 hours
His second attempt at building software by voice with an agent produced Feather, a working Nostr client. He had to talk it out of adding an app store, a login page, and a settings menu it kept trying to build, and he paid about 3,000 sats in lightning tips to people who reviewed the code.
I photographed my Lego sets and my agent filed all the manuals in my iCloud Drive
He says he took pictures of his Lego sets and asked the AI to download the manuals and organize them into folders in his iCloud Drive. It worked great.
The AI manages the home media stack his whole family uses
The AI manages his home media stack (microK8s, arr services, vibe-coded MCP) that his family uses to download and manage media via local AI.
I asked the AI for a morning greeting app. It built and scheduled much more.
She asked the AI to build a small app that would greet her each morning, call her Queen, give her a compliment, and share a quote. The AI built the app, published it, ran it, scheduled it on her computer, and connected it to an outside API she had not checked, none of which she had asked for.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
We audited Datasette with AI and shipped two security releases
He ran an extensive audit of his Datasette software using AI Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, then fixed a range of bugs the audit found. The fixes went out as the Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases, and he told anyone running Datasette on a public website to upgrade.
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