An agent reverse engineered a CAD tool's interface to dodge its API pricing
Made Astra reverse-engineer Onshape's UI to build a middle-man extension exposing an API that bypasses the official API pricing, now used for AI CAD with AI and the AI.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasI asked the AI to fix my laptop fan. It disabled my keyboard.
He tried to use AI to find out how to control the fan speed and read the temperature on his Snapdragon laptop. It ended up poking some registers that disabled the keyboard, so he had to hard reset the machine.
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About a dozen boards built with one model, the favourite revives his old micro laptop
Built about a dozen boards using GPT-5.6 Sol; his favourite is a Pi CM5 carrier board replacing the laptop board in an old Sony Vaio P.
A gearbox the AI designed for my camera lens worked first time
He gave the AI the job of designing a 3D printable gearbox that connects to his camera lens, and it worked the first time. In the same post he notes the AI needed two tries at a simple joke answer.
Compiled dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts — including non-users — identifying
Investigative journalists spent two days instructing the AI to identify people across sensitive demographics (undocumented immigrants, transgender public-school educators, electoral poll workers, Iranian dissidents, ICE agents, deployed Navy personnel, women discussing abortion pills, and others). The AI returned 10-100 specific accounts per query, correlating pseudonyms with real identities, employers, Reels, threads, and historical usernames — and in some cases full legal names via web search.
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.
My agent is merging years of my writing with a friend into finished books
Two friends wrote fiction together in chat for years. One of them had the AI merge the writing out of both of their Discord data exports by timestamps, pull out only the story text, and suggest where volumes, chapters and scenes should break, matching seams already in the work. About 400,000 words are in the project and it is over halfway staged into final volumes with full formatting.
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An AI assisted computation produced a counterexample to a graph coloring method
A question asked for counterexamples to a graph coloring algorithm that reduces coloring to polynomial equations. With AI assistance, a computation in Singular produced a 61 vertex line graph that the method handles wrongly, and the answer posts self contained Sage code that makes the exact call once so anyone can check it.
Checked Tuesday-evening tennis court availability and booked court 2 at 7:30pm with
Demonstrated live: The AI searched court availability, booked the slot, and put it on the calendar without leaving the AI.
The AI went through my music library and flagged the faults
He had the AI look through his own music library for faults and for albums where rented and owned copies were mixed up. The AI made a full interactive view of what it found.
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