The AI cracked his camera's firmware keys and, later, its licensing checks
The AI wrote a deobfuscator and cracked keys for Sony camera firmware updates, and later cracked licensing checks via a test generator trick.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI tested about 20 models on my machine and found the best fit
He had the AI benchmark around 20 models on his own machine and give him a report comparing run speed and quality. After 7 hours of testing it said gpt-oss-20b was the best fit for his setup, and that is the one he chose.
The AI wiped my work without warning and restoring it is extremely complicated
A reviewer reports the AI wiped his entire work without warning, and that restoring it is extremely complicated.
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The AI replaced two vendor Windows programs that bugged me for 4 years
Two vendor provided Windows programs had annoyed him for over 4 years. He pointed the AI at the Windows binary and converted each one to Python running on Linux, about a day each, weird RS232 protocols and everything, and it worked.
I had an agent fill out an annoying form using my own answers
He used AI or the AI with Chrome to control his browser and fill out an annoying form. It filled the form in from answers he had put together in a Word doc, and it made no mistakes.
Opus decompiles Windows 95-era games to byte-exact source in about a week each
Uses Opus 5.5 to decompile Windows 95-98 games in about a week each, getting byte-to-byte exact output with clear names and no Ghidra smell.
The AI got WiFi working on his laptop's new system, at a cost of 6 million tokens
The AI got Omarchy WiFi working on his MacBook, at a cost of 6M tokens.
My agent read 121 studio notes and helped me make portraits
Her local AI agent, fractura, read all 121 of her studio notes in 36 hours and handed back an analysis that named her art lineage, including terra fracta. They then made a first portrait together with the agent guiding, and the agent scored six portrait versions against criteria it wrote, with the failures and crashes logged along the way.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI’s halftone tool had him burning printing screens a day or two later
The AI built a halftone web tool, rewrote it in JavaScript, and he was burning screens with it a day or two later.
Dots watches my servers and warns me before deadlines. In France it costs 130 euros a month.
After three weeks with OpenAI Dots in France, a user says it reads his email in read only mode. When OVHcloud announced data center work, Dots matched the notice against his own servers, told him which could be hit and told him to check his backups. It also warns him ahead of renewals like Amazon Prime.
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