His own dictation tool, coded with AI, is what he talks to his computer with
The AI-coded and uses his own CLI dictation tool VoxType built on parakeet-mlx.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Work
Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,695 ideasMy dot said the spreadsheet passed 27 checks. It broke in Google Sheets.
Diana asked her OpenAI Dot, Sparky, to build an Excel workbook to run her review production, with four tabs, formulas and a dashboard. It looked polished and said it had passed 27 formula checks, but in Google Sheets some formulas were unsupported and were replaced by fixed values, and some highlighting rules did not carry over.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI edits my videos so I can post more
He drags his raw video into AI, and it cuts the pauses, stumbles, and stutters. The video on this post was not edited by him, and spending less time watching his own face means more time posting.
His team's test framework drives the product, has an LLM judge it, and files the issues
His team runs a fuzz framework that drives a Migration Assistant with Playwright, has an LLM judge results, and files issues back into their system.
An LLM keeps the index of his browsing archive tidy for his writing
LLM maintains the taxonomy and index for his automatically collected browsing archive in an Obsidian vault, used for his writing.
The free time trackers annoyed me, so I built my own with AI
He is a consultant, and the free apps he and his team used to track time for the official timesheet all annoyed him. So he made his own time tracker, ConClock, with AI, and it is already at version 0.7.2.
The AI and the AI got a working prototype of a legacy migration in about 2 weeks
His company used AI and the AI to migrate legacy framework and libraries, getting a working prototype in about 2 weeks from one developer versus an estimated months to a year without AI.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI rewrote their website as static templates and ended the WordPress era
The AI rewrote their website as Hugo templates, allowing static hosting and getting rid of WordPress.
Turn my screen recording into an avatar tutorial video
A creator gave the AI a screen recording and asked for a setup tutorial; the agent produced a HeyGen video presented by her own avatar. It kept her preferences in memory for follow-up video work.
Opus took apart 3 rival audio products in about 3 hours and rebuilt them as a tested library
Opus 5.5 decompiled 3 competitor audio products in about 3 hours from one prompt, built an emulator to verify, converted them to a C++ library, all tested and sounding right.
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