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I designed a keyboard with AI and sent it off to production

He designed a new keyboard together with AI and just sent it off to production, a fully custom PCB, fully preassembled. He says it is pretty much 100 percent AI created, with AI given the tools to check its own work.

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The AI could not sort the pages of my gig cheat sheet

He built a Word document of cheat sheets for 40 songs for a gig the next day, each song title in Heading 1 style with the lyrics and chords below. He told the AI to sort the pages by that heading text, keeping the text as it was, and the AI could not do it. He says the graphics in the document block the sort.

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She produced a complete video with AI and ElevenLabs in about an hour

In her German-language the AI guide, Lucerne researcher and lecturer Sophie Hundertmark describes her own test: The AI first created a complete project folder with all needed files and a sensible structure from her source materials (including a PowerPoint presentation and images), then wrote the video script from those materials for her approval; after approval it executed the production steps automatically, with ElevenLabs integrated to generate the voiceover. She added a QR code at the end herself. The full video took about an hour, with AI doing most of the work.

Redesign my personal website with me, round by round, by voice

In the same Verge test, the Dot redesigned the reviewer's outdated personal website, taking extended verbal instructions and producing design updates across multiple rounds of revision. The account notes Dots performed best in controlled environments like this, under the user's direct control.

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