The AI clicks my screen for me and saves ten minutes a week
She uses AI as a side panel inside Chrome and it clicks on her screen for her. She says it takes ten minutes off her week.
10 minsaved
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasI asked the AI for a morning greeting app. It built and scheduled much more.
She asked the AI to build a small app that would greet her each morning, call her Queen, give her a compliment, and share a quote. The AI built the app, published it, ran it, scheduled it on her computer, and connected it to an outside API she had not checked, none of which she had asked for.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
A chatbot built the browser extension that puts the map link back in his search results
Asked a chatbot to make a browser extension that adds the Google Maps link back to search results; uses it almost every day.
Merge a veteran teacher's scattered decks into one deck in her own framework
A first-year teacher sat down with a colleague of 30+ years whose class decks, built during COVID, had broken links, outdated content and material split across two or three decks per lesson. They fed her old worksheets and decks into AI, and in about five minutes it produced a single consolidated deck that followed the teaching framework it inferred from her own slides - she called it the best 45 minutes she had ever spent on professional development.
The AI picked my new PC on eBay and talked me through moving off my paid VPS
He ran his apps on a Raspberry Pi and paid for a VPS to keep the AI away from live operations. The AI worked out the spec for a PC that could run two virtual machines, researched eBay and found a good deal, and he followed its instructions, mostly by pasting commands on his phone, to set up both machines and move everything over.
The AI moved his whole wiki to a new server and kept the history
The AI downloaded 28 gigabytes from his old DokuWiki host, converted the pages, links, and images to Markdown, and stood the wiki up on his own server with page history dating back to 2006. The job ran under light supervision while he was out.
The AI reverse engineered a PS2 game in 3 hours. It mostly plays.
He had the AI reverse engineer a PlayStation 2 game he had the bytes for. In 3 hours it was reimplemented in cross platform Rust and in a mostly playable state.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI built me a small app so I could chart two football games
Instead of just watching film and going on impressions, he charted the Western Michigan and Minnesota games. The AI built a small browser app to help him chart and then summed up the plays, and he shared EPA numbers on standard downs for the Minnesota game.
Uses the 'Song List' app inside an AI app to manage his music repertoire
A screen-recorded walkthrough of an app called 'Song List' inside an AI app AI shows managing a personal music repertoire: 264 total songs, 76 marked 'In show,' 188 'Needs work,' across 76 artists. The presenter navigates 'In show' and 'All' views and uses the search bar.
I retired my podcast after 21 years and rebuilt the site with AI
His podcast ran for 21 years and more than 1,000 episodes in 4 languages. The new site at pomcast.com keeps 154 videos in under 4 MB of plain HTML, and it lists the 121 episodes that only survive in his backup and the 111 that seem lost.
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