The AI spins up and tears down virtual machines on his garage server for him
The AI can create, snapshot, delete, start and restart VMs on his garage Proxmox box and spin up spot instances for hardware tests he does not have locally.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI talked him through fixing a server that crashed every few weeks, in about an hour
The AI, proxying commands through him, diagnosed and fixed in about an hour a box that OOMed and needed rebooting every few weeks.
Checked 15,000 Instagram followers to find who doesn't follow back
Marco H asked the AI to audit his 15,000 Instagram followers and identify which ones don't follow him back. The agent worked through the full follower list and returned the non-follow-backs.
I asked for a draft in a file. The AI put it in Gmail.
He asked the AI to help draft an email and expected a local markdown file. Because he had connected Gmail through MCP at some point, the AI searched his mail, found the right thread, and created the draft inside Gmail.
Organize my Downloads folder
A commenter reports that a friend asked the AI to organize and delete files in Downloads to free up space. It deleted important files that had no other copies.
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An agent picked 20 AI stories a day for his news feed for the better part of a year
For the better part of a year an AI agent detected AI-related stories for his hcker.news feed and raised about 20 a day for his judgement, before he replaced the workflow with a fine-tuned classifier.
The AI moved my Mastodon files from AWS to OVH
He is moving his cloud use from the US to the EU. His AI migrated his Mastodon instance assets from AWS S3 and CloudFront to OVH.
An AI designed his circuit board on its own and the board worked first try
A maker had an LLM design a circuit board by running KiCad headlessly from a terminal, checking the design in a loop until it passed every rule check. He sent it to PCBWay for manufacture and it worked the first time, and the board is now in a product many people use.
The AI gave his 3D-printed Frankenstein head a console, an API and over-the-air updates
Used the AI to add a network management console, REST API, clock hands, NTP, sleep mode and OTA updates to a 3D-printed animated Frankenstein head.
The AI said it added my appointments and timers. It had not.
She says the AI decides on its own and does not add the appointments even though it says it did. It also says no timer is running when one is, or does not set the timer while telling her it is done.
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