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.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasI knew no coding. The AI made a game mod that worked.
A player with no modding knowledge told the AI what he wanted for his Big Ambitions game and set it to Opus high. Five minutes later he had a mod that worked in the game, shared on Steam Workshop as Learn on the Job.
Tried an insurance prompt from a use-case account and received licensing/scope warnings
Ahmad Alkabra posted on X that he tried an insurance prompt sourced from an AI use-case account and received safety and scope warnings, including that the AI would not pose as a licensed insurance broker. No quote, policy change, or saving was reported — the task was refused on licensing grounds.
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I got the AI to build the collage tool I needed, then released it for anyone
He sketched out how he wanted image collages to lay out and prompted the AI to build a simple tool with sliders for overlap and offset. He used it to make the image stacks for his project, kept improving it, and released Stacks V2 in October 2026 for anyone to try.
50 DeepSeek agents pulled apart an old game's code and found over 100 new functions for 2 dollars
Ran up to 50 concurrent DeepSeek subagents reverse-engineering C code from an old PC game, finding over 100 new functions for about 2 dollars.
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Laid off two weeks ago, he spent the time finishing the poker site his friend group had wanted for years
His poker group has played together since high school. During Covid they played on a website that later shut down, and there was no good replacement for friends who just want a game of Texas hold'em online. He started building his own with AI while playing with the group, and after he was laid off from his database engineering job he spent two weeks going full time on it: front end, logins, authentication and stats. It is live in beta and free while he waits for his bank to approve that it is not a gambling website.
Two models built a full game engine from the ground up in 2 weeks; he audited every line
GPT Sol and Astra built a fully featured ground-up game engine in two weeks (render pipeline, physics, collision, shadow maps); he audited every line.
Scheduled a daily two-host AI-news podcast that saves to the Library and
The reviewer set up a scheduled daily AI-news briefing in an AI app as a two-host podcast saved in the app's Library, with an RSS feed for following in a podcast app. It worked, though the newest episode shown was dated two days earlier, flagging a freshness caveat on daily generation.
Fable built the tiny text editor he now uses as his main editor, in about 2 days
Fable built him a tiny, fast text editor in about 2 days that he uses as his primary editor, plus a key-bound note-taking interface in his Notes folder.
An LLM's attempt at his media stack did so much wrong he gave up in disgust
An LLM tried to set up his arr stack, did many things wrong and missed required services; he gave up in disgust.
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