The AI added meaning-based search to his personal archive search, in daily use
The AI vibe-coded a RAG and semantic search augmentation to his full-text SQLite search, now in use on a corpus of under 2 million rows.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasHe used AI on NASA data and found a planet candidate nobody had reported
Going through data from NASA's TESS telescope with AI, a user found a star about 116 light years away that dims by 0.05 percent every 3.18 days for about two hours, the same dip in 2018, 2020 and 2025 data. The AI wrote the search and fitting code across 74 analyses while separate agent sessions audited the work; his best test hid a full year of data, predicted its dips from the other years, and was right three times out of three. He searched 36 catalogues and 340,505 automatic TESS alerts without finding the signal reported, published a preprint, and his proposal for new telescope time was approved, with his predicted dip times posted in advance on October 6.
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Track my reading goal and add books to my list
AI engineer Sajal Sharma built an AI on Telegram that tracks his tasks and notes and handles scheduled work. On camera he asked for a project overview, checked progress toward a reading goal, and had the assistant search the web for a book series and add the books it found to his reading list.
The AI pulled all his photos out of the cloud into his own archive
The AI made a PHP script that used the Google Photos API to pull all his photos to his archive location; the extraction is done.
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.
Elgato removed my favourite Stream Deck plugin. The AI built me a new one.
Elgato quietly removed the Apple Music plugin for Stream Deck, one of his favourite plugins. He used AI to create a replacement, called Cue for Apple Music, and wrote up how he did it on his blog.
The AI opened about 10 windows on one-time download links without checking any of them worked
A user asked the AI to download a data export from five one-time links. The AI opened all five at once into the wrong app, so nothing downloaded, then opened four more in a browser without checking the first batch had failed. About ten windows and tabs later the one-time links may be used up. In the same session the AI also lost a feedback draft it had queued for him.
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The AI made a 4 player Wizard of Wor for my Atari 800
Thanks to the AI he has been working on a 4 player version of Wizard of Wor for the Atari 800 that uses all 4 joystick ports, so far in an emulator, with a real Atari test to come. He says he can now play his favorite games with fun options that never existed before.
I sent my study guide to my agent and it built me a quiz site to practise on
A high school student sent his study guide PDF to the AI and had it build a website with a quiz style practice interface using the guide's own questions. He says it works well and beats making practice sets by hand when time is short.
The AI runs his home network from Discord, setting up and fixing SSH servers on voice command
The AI agy hooked itself to Discord, set up and troubleshoots SSH servers on his home network, commands it remotely.
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