The AI stood up 4 unfamiliar server services in 2 days, a week of work compressed
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.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI pulled the logs for my router cases. Six months on, no fix.
His Ubiquiti access points are full of firmware bugs. Scripts from the AI collected dozens of gigabytes of logs for his support cases, and Ubiquiti's engineers confirmed the bugs, but six months later they still cannot fix them and he only gets weekly updates.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI cleared over 11,000 of my emails last night
He had the AI sort through his emails. It cleared over 11,000 of them and organised the rest, and he says it was far easier to set up than the AI.
The AI made his animation and voiced it by working around the container limits
He had the AI produce an animation with a voice-over inside a sandboxed setup. The direct routes to the audio tools were blocked by container limits, so the AI found another way to generate the voice, and the finished piece plays.
Audit my own AI usage and show me where I waste tokens
A user built optimAIzr with AI, a local-only CLI that analyses his own LLM usage habits, flags costly or repeated patterns and estimates where he can cut tokens or spending. All data stays on his machine, and the tool adds live tips while he works.
An LLM decoded his drawing tablet's packets in 15 minutes and connected it anywhere
Sicced an LLM on Wacom Bluetooth and USB packets to connect it to an unsupported system; it decoded everything in 15 minutes.
15 minsaved
The AI could not tidy his desktop and told him to do it himself
The AI given desktop and email access failed to clean up his desktop, said it could not press buttons or drag files to the recycle bin and suggested he do it himself.
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The AI wrote every line of my game. Version 173 is playable now.
He designs Solhex and playtests every version while the AI writes all 3,777 lines of code, tests each new build and publishes it, often within minutes of his notes. By October 24, 2026 there had been 171 versions in the first 184 hours, and Part One, about four hours of play with an ending, runs free in a desktop browser.
He opens an LLM in his config files and argues with it until his editor works again
Opens an LLM in his dotfiles and complains until his broken LSP config works again, usually in a few minutes, a recurring fix over months.
I only kept Photoshop for one file job. The AI now does it in batches.
For years he kept a Photoshop contract just to read and write DDS texture files for his ETS2 and ATS mods. He asked the AI, and now he can convert DDS to PSD and back in batches.
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