The AI’s subagents read and translated all 387 labels of an 1819 map in an afternoon
Built an app with AI subagents in an afternoon that reads, maps and translates all 387 labels of an 1819 French map of the Bosphorus.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI added my calendar event with the wrong address
The AI adds things to his calendar from his emails, the way Google Assistant used to. Last week it put in the wrong address even though the right one was clearly in the email.
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The AI turned my 44 messy Gmail filters into 16 that work better
He had added 44 Gmail filters over 5 years and they were not working well. With an AI skill that uses the Gmail MCP and a lot of email history to test against, the set was cut down to 16 filters that work better with fewer false positives. He wrote the process down as a skill afterward.
Built a 'Cupid' agent inside an AI app that stores a couple's income, strengths
A self-described 'personal CFO for wealthmaxxing couples' on Facebook built an AI named 'Cupid' that stores her and her boyfriend's income, strengths, and goals, then proactively reminds them each month to have a 'money date' — bridging her moonshot-entrepreneur style with his investment-savvy approach.
I had the AI build the screen printing software I actually wanted
He used AI to build software for color separation, halftoning and layer editing for his screen prints. It is built around his own way of working, and he says it has made him a better artist.
The AI recorded the audiobook that did not exist for his favourite translation
The AI created an audiobook for him from the Robin Buss translation of The Count of Monte Cristo, which had no audiobook.
His training data from Strava now writes his monthly review
He linked his Strava data to the AI through the API and had it write his monthly triathlon review from the training notes he keeps. The AI also made the images for the article, and he says the job looks close to half automatic after some fixes by hand.
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He turned a $15 Car Thing brick into a touch screen companion
He bought a Spotify Car Thing for about $15 when it was being discontinued, and it sat by his desk as a brick after Spotify shut it down. Today he had the AI help him turn it into a little touch screen companion.
The AI built replacement road trip games for his dad
His dad lost the magnetic board games he used on road trips. He had the AI research and build simple digital versions of the games, and his dad plays them now.
GPT built a searchable catalogue of more than 700 mathematics preprints
When OpenAI released more than 700 mathematical preprints, a researcher wanted to search inside them, including proofs and bibliographies. With GPT-6 Astra he built a searchable catalogue that organises the papers by research area with clickable keywords, full text search, links to the originals, and each paper's Lean formalization status, and he put it on his website for public use.
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