The AI cleared over 11,000 of my emails last night
He had the AI sort through his emails. It cleared over 11,000 of them and organised the rest, and he says it was far easier to set up than the AI.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasHis AI got him off spam call lists and the calls dropped
A few days ago he had his AI take him off spam call lists. Since then the amount of spam calls he gets has dropped a lot.
An agent ran the tool bake-off for his singing app and cut months of building
An agent researched available tools, built an eval set, and tested tools against each other to pick the set used for his singing app, cutting build time from months or a year to about 10 days.
The AI moved all his iCloud data into his own service, and he cut iCloud to the free tier
Used the AI to pull all his iCloud data into a custom web service for scanning photos and messages, then cancelled the paid iCloud subscription down to the free tier.
He catalogued his wife's inherited coin collection with an app that scans each coin and looks up what it is worth
His wife was left a massive box of coins by her late grandfather many years ago, and they had never catalogued them. He built an app that scans a coin and records its year, type, series and what it is made of, then checks websites for an approximate value and adds it to the collection. It can filter views, track where each coin is physically stored, and show graphs of the total value and the breakdown by coin type. There is also a virtual coin book he can flip through, using the photos he captured while scanning each coin in. For now the app is just for him.
The AI with robotic hands and eyes built the controller for real hardware porting work
The AI, given hands and eyes via USB4VC, a capture dongle, a Wemo switch and file transfer, built vcctrl to control real hardware and do DOS and classic Mac porting work for him.
The AI deployed his relay on Kubernetes and set up its uptime monitors
His Nostr relay moved from a single container to a Kubernetes cluster, redeployed by the AI with an uptime monitoring setup watching it. He reports the relay is faster and the migration went smoothly.
I asked the AI to erase my name from data broker sites
She asked the AI to erase her digital footprint. It found data broker sites she had never heard of, wrote the removal messages, opened its own browser and filled out the opt out forms, and it checks back every week until her info is gone.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI rebuilt my blog from a WordPress export. I left WordPress after 15 years.
He gave the AI his WordPress export and told it to rebuild the blog in Astro. The new self hosted site is live with a modern style, a dark theme and better accessibility, and it ends the $110 a year WordPress charged him.
$110a year
An LLM cleans his dev machine's disk every day, deleting other tools' leftovers
Runs an LLM once a day on his dev VM to scan the disk and delete leftover garbage left by other harnesses.
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