The AI jailbroke his e-readers into the home system and revived a car gadget on a Pi
Got the AI to jailbreak his Kindles and add them to his home tech ecosystem, and to hack a Spotify Car Thing so a Raspberry Pi can drive it.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasA street sweeping alert service built with agents warns him the night before parking rules bite
Broomsday street sweeping alert service built with LLM harnesses is ready and testing with friends and family, sends email and SMS the night before block restrictions to avoid 50 dollar tickets.
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Watch my Spotify artists for concert postings and offer to grab the tickets
The journalist's the AI (Mark) kept tabs on concert postings from artists in her Spotify library and offered to snag tickets when shows appeared. Working from a song she had saved, it surfaced January concert tickets for Jess Williamson.
The AI spotted a wrongly-set device alarm within minutes from the log
A DO alarm was accidentally set to a past time and retriggered immediately; the AI caught it within a couple of minutes from its log tail.
My AI built and published my site
For her Manuscriptions site, a hub for people who write about handwriting, letters and note taking, Eleanor Konik told the AI what she wanted and it wrote and designed the page in an illuminated manuscript style using her Substack colors, then handled the publishing through a Cloudflare key. Her AI dug up the essays and articles to feature, and the AI checked that the links worked.
The AI restored my damaged video, a job I used to need a special tool for
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.
An agent scored genealogy matches and missed the matches a human spots at once
A coding agent built and tested complex genealogy record-matching scoring rules against real datasets; results sort of acceptable but it missed human-obvious cases and produced false positives.
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Barrelbound, my jungle game built with GPT-6 Astra, is free to play
He built Barrelbound with GPT-6 Astra and generated art. The game has two heroes, three jungle courses, barrels and double jumps, and anyone can play it free in the browser.
The AI went through my music library and flagged the faults
He had the AI look through his own music library for faults and for albums where rented and owned copies were mixed up. The AI made a full interactive view of what it found.
A language model transcribed a whole historical correspondence volume
A researcher had a language model transcribe a digitised volume of Sophie Germain's incoming correspondence at the national library, and published the transcription. Working from it, he spotted a mathematical note written on an 1814 letter cover and is asking who wrote it.
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