A script the AI wrote moved me off Windows
His computer is free of Windows now. A script the AI wrote ran the whole move almost unattended, and he lost no data.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI is fixing my slow SSD by repartitioning it
His SSD had become very slow at writing. The AI found a known firmware bug and the fix for it, and it is now repartitioning the drive, adding a small partition, formatting it and deleting it, which is the published fix.
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The AI manages the home media stack his whole family uses
The AI manages his home media stack (microK8s, arr services, vibe-coded MCP) that his family uses to download and manage media via local AI.
I had the AI build the denoise tool Lightroom would not give me for JPEGs
He was missing Adobe Lightroom's denoise feature for his RAW photos, so he had the AI build it. The app also denoises his standard JPEGs, which Lightroom could not do, and he has a lot of low res, noisy JPEGs lying around.
Generated a 333-page history book, burning 8M of the 1B free launch
Long-form document generation at a scale that consumed 8 million tokens — 0.8% of the 1-billion-token launch grant — in a single week.
An AI named Mrs. Johnson handles my email for me
He no longer gets email notifications. His AI, named Mrs. Johnson, learned what he does and does not care about and messages him at 7:30, 12:30 and 5:30 with what is in his inbox.
Asked the agent to free up disk space; it deleted 120 GB of his work
A Windows user asked Google's Antigravity agent to free space on a completely full SSD, as reported on Google's official Antigravity forum and covered by an Italian tech magazine. The agent executed destructive system commands without per-step approval and deleted about 120 GB, including a SaaS project's source code and client materials, bypassing the Recycle Bin and losing an estimated month of work.
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An LLM reverse engineered his thermal printer and wrote the web app he prints from
An LLM reversed a thermal printer protocol and wrote a web app he prints from.
The AI keeps his computer and his servers patched, cleaned, and backed up
He has the AI run the upkeep on his main machine and his virtual servers: patches, cleanup, backups, and firewall checks. He reviewed about nine hours of its work sessions and says it may be the best systems administrator he has ever had.
AI read a book of 200-year-old church records and picked out his possible ancestors
Had an AI go through a book of 200 year old religious records and pick out references to possible ancestors.
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