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He left Twitter in 2022 and had wanted his archive in the Day One journal app ever since. The AI did the import in an hour, and that time included backing up his databases first in case anything went wrong.
Used the AI to get 4 unfamiliar Proxmox LXC services working, drafting configs and VPN-only firewall rules in 2 days instead of about a week.
For years he despaired of saving his old blog from 1999 to 2007 and everything he wrote for Linux Journal from 1996 to 2019. He asked the AI for help, and the AI rescued both sets of writing and put them back online at searls.com, though some Linux Journal pieces are still missing.
The AI in Antigravity built an Enigma decryption program, fetched repos, ran an 82M combination scan and decrypted the message in about 45 minutes.
Fulton's the AI flagged an Economist interview with Andrew Ng that matched his interests, wrote him a primer before it started, and placed it on both his personal and work calendars. He had not asked it to connect those dots.
He plugged his Liene PixCut S1 photo cutter into AI and now has his own editor and cutter software. It runs in the browser, it is completely free, and it needs no accounts.
He says some tools disappear because a chatbot can now do their job reliably. The AI restored a corrupted video for him, something he would previously have used a specialized tool for.
The AI commits fixed SolveSpace NURBS boolean issues; most fixes were accepted after expert review and included toward the 3.3 release.
He connected the AI to DevonThink, the app where he keeps his documents. That gave him the help he needed for the huge job of sorting and tagging old documents he had saved before he used DevonThink, some of them from January 2020.
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.
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