The AI’s fixes for a CAD tool's geometry bugs were accepted into the next release
The AI commits fixed SolveSpace NURBS boolean issues; most fixes were accepted after expert review and included toward the 3.3 release.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasReporter told the AI to manage his cloud storage; it flagged videos as the urgent problem and lined up 10 large files to delete
A Money Today reporter installed the AI and, for a Sept 29, 2026 article, ordered it to manage his Google cloud storage. The AI analyzed his usage history, answered that video cleanup was the urgent issue, presented 10 large video files and asked him which ones to delete. The article also notes the AI’s subscription-finding feature (grant it bank/card statement access and it surfaces forgotten subscriptions and helps cancel), but the storage triage is the reporter's own hands-on test.
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Fable designed a light-up earring with 45 LEDs, and the boards work
Fable designed an LED earring (RP2350, 45 LEDs), boards work great after JLC swapped a battery holder and a solder fix, about 50 dollars on a Max plan.
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Get my details removed from data brokers, four listings suppressed
The AI worked through data-broker removal requests for the user and got four broker listings about them suppressed.
The AI cleared out 618 leftover routine sessions, 25 at a time behind approvals
Scheduled the AI routines leave a session behind on every run, and one routine had built up 618 open sessions that the app only lets you delete one at a time. A cleanup skill plans the job, keeping the newest sessions and any where the owner typed a reply, then has the AI delete through the app’s own session tool, 25 per call, each batch behind an approval card.
The AI decoded his area's trunked radio channels with a signal dongle and public data
The AI used rtl-sdr tools, wrote Python scripts to analyze signals, and built a SQLite database from FCC licensor data to identify and decode trunked voice channels.
The AI on my phone says it cannot set reminders
He says that when he asks the AI on his phone to set a reminder, the AI tells him it is unable to set reminders and to use the built-in assistant on his phone instead.
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I built my own Lightroom style tool with AI to process my photos in batches
He generated a Lightroom style program with AI that develops his RAW photos in batches. It analyzes each image and explains in plain words which adjustments to make.
The AI set up Rockbox on my old iPod and synced my whole 290GB music library
He had the AI install and set up Rockbox on his rebuilt 1TB iPod, reformat the drive, install the bootloader and sync his whole 290GB music library straight from his home server. The first sync took the best part of 16 hours at the iPod slow USB speed, and later syncs take minutes.
I moved my old Twitter threads onto my own blog with AI
He mined his old Twitter archive with help from the AI. His old threads of more than three tweets and his collections of links are now on his own site as historic blog posts.
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