A weekly report tells him what changed on all his machines, set up in 30 minutes
Weekly Chezmoi drift report across all his machines, including what he changed, set up in 30 minutes.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI made a calendar event from a webinar email, but missed the link
The AI took a webinar email and made a calendar event for it on its own. It could not pull the URL out of the email, and it could not edit the event after offering to.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
An LLM cleans his dev machine's disk every day, deleting other tools' leftovers
Runs an LLM once a day on his dev VM to scan the disk and delete leftover garbage left by other harnesses.
He keeps his photography tool alive with an AI harness and dropped his Adobe subscription
Built and maintains a photography workflow tool with an AI coding harness and discontinued his Adobe subscription.
My AI assistant files notes and fixes links in my vault daily
He lets an AI assistant work in his notes vault every day. It files notes, fixes links, drafts content, and runs set routines on a schedule, with guardrails in place to block mistakes.
An LLM built his replacement blocklist when the community one was discontinued
After CrowdSec stopped supplying its community blocklist, he had an LLM build a replacement blocklist from public sources for his Debian VPS.
The AI found why my phone photos stopped syncing and cleared 794 files
His Fairphone photos stopped syncing to his Murena cloud in June with no error, and forums only gave him general advice. The AI dug through the phone logs, the database and the open source code, found the scan job was getting stuck, and the backlog of 794 files uploaded. His cloud use went from 13.2 GB to 14.9 GB and new photos now upload in seconds.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
YouTube kept rewinding my videos. GPT found the bug in its code.
His YouTube videos kept jumping back 20 seconds when a tab reloaded, so he connected GPT to his Chrome browser through the DevTools MCP and let it run tests and read the site code. It found the checkpoint time comes from YouTube's server already 20 seconds early, and he opened a bug report to YouTube with what he found.
Built a pitch deck to convince a spouse to upgrade to the
King Fazir had the AI build a presentation whose whole job was persuasion: sell a spouse on buying the new iPhone Duo.
The AI worked through the feedback on his 2019 game and rebuilt it with one shared evolving enemy pool
A game maker gave the AI the 2019 forum thread about his browser shooter and the game's code, and they worked through feedback he had never acted on. The game now restores full health each round, shows a scoreboard on the game over screen, spawns enemies at a safe distance, and fixes an aiming bug. The biggest change is one shared enemy population on a server, so every round anyone plays moves the evolution forward.
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