The AI flagged my contractor's expired license while drafting my email
He used AI to draft a first email inquiry to a contractor. The AI pointed out that the contractor's DC license expired in 2025, a check he says he would not have thought to make.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasThe AI updated his system packages to named versions and checked them for holes
The AI updated his system packages, including Node, Python, uv, OpenSSL and certifi to named new versions, checked a checksum, and checked recent vulnerabilities.
The AI ran a game's demos, diffed the pixels, and patched it deterministic
The AI autonomously ran Quake demo playbacks, took pixel-diff snapshots, compiled a native build and patched the game for determinism, leaving a solid regression test set.
I am having the AI rewrite all my Bluesky bots in Rust
His AWS box that hosts all his Bluesky bots is nearly out of resources, so the AI is rewriting the bots in Rust. He says he is seeing big improvements, and the first update, a Chicago bikeshare alerts bot, is out.
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Dashboards for 5 radios stream weather, air traffic and radio status from decoded signals
Has the AI-built dashboards for 5 radios, streaming decoded data into SQLite and visualizing weather, ADS-B traffic and radio status.
The AI helped him read 1700s French church records and find ancestors no family tree had
He does not read French, and his ancestors’ records sit in handwritten Quebec church registers from the 1700s, scanned into public databases. Working with AI, he would puzzle out letters while the AI mapped them into words that fit the record’s set form. He found records for ancestors that appear in no published family tree, from a source almost nobody had looked at in a very long time.
One the AI-factored system config now runs three of his machines, rollbacks included
Set up NixOS on an ancient laptop using AI to factor the config; now uses the same config to manage three machines with easy rollback.
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.
Astra spent 2 days failing to drive a robot arm that could not lift a sock
Astra failed for 2 days building an AI skill to control a robot tank arm, wrong servo, gripper and gimbal calculations, could not lift socks, about 50 pounds in credits burned.
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The AI built an annotated guide to The Waste Land
As an Eliot fan, he had the AI Fable 5.1 build an annotated guide to the poem The Waste Land. The guide has more than one path through the poem, plus recordings and scholarship, and it is live online.
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