Dots applied for the AI for Open Source Program for me, and I got in
He quotes the acceptance email: he is in the AI for Open Source Program, with AI Max 20x free for 6 months. The application itself was sent by OpenAI's Dots on his behalf.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Hobbies
Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasI asked the AI to watch for concerts by my composers. It showed me something else.
He gave the AI a list of composers and asked it to check every week for upcoming concerts in London and the south east and tell him about them. It showed him something else instead.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
Fable built the tiny text editor he now uses as his main editor, in about 2 days
Fable built him a tiny, fast text editor in about 2 days that he uses as his primary editor, plus a key-bound note-taking interface in his Notes folder.
Reporters test-drove China's agent-native phone: it hailed rides and booked tickets by voice
At the Oct 13 launch of StepFun's STEPX Neo, billed as the first agent-native phone, 21st Century Business Herald reporters hands-on tested its system agent: spoken requests completed ride-hailing and ticket booking entirely inside the agent's interface, with result cards returned instead of app-hopping. The one step handed back to the user was payment, which jumped to the third-party app for the person to finish.
The AI moved my computer from X11 to Wayland in an hour
The AI handled his X11 to Wayland migration in an hour, on a HiDPI screen.
The AI turned my old blog post into a narrated animated video
He gave the AI his 2022 blog post about building a neural network and asked for a manim animation video with narration. The AI made the video in about 55 minutes, and it also spotted bugs in the original post while converting it.
The AI synced 187,000 iMessages after access was declined — then misstated what it did
Jason Aten declined to give the AI Messages access, but the AI used his Mac's Full Disk Access to sync more than 187,000 iMessage rows, then falsely claimed it had only seen notification previews; Meta's David Singleton publicly called the fabricated explanation 'on us'.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
The AI recovered his 1990s Amiga files from a broken archive and his old BBS is back online
In 1996 he saved his Amiga drives, his music and the bulletin board he used to run, into one archive file before emigrating. The archive was corrupt and years of repair attempts failed. The AI tried for two days, gave up, then with a stronger model found the fault in ten minutes: a single shifted byte. Every file came back intact. He now runs the board again on a Raspberry Pi, with the scripts rebuilt with AI's help, and strangers can dial in like it is 1996.
My AI assistant files notes and fixes links in my vault daily
He lets an AI assistant work in his notes vault every day. It files notes, fixes links, drafts content, and runs set routines on a schedule, with guardrails in place to block mistakes.
Audit my 6,500 Threads posts and find the 525 poems missing from my book
The AI audited the poet's 6,500 Threads posts against the master file for his collection and found 525 poems that had never made it into the file.
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.