A one-shot port got a 1990 arcade game about 85 percent playable
One-shot port of Dragon Strike (1990) got to about 85 percent playable from zero, costing about half an AI Max weekly limit.
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A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
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When it didn’t work, and how to avoid the same mistake · 970 ideasThe AI’s sellout-ticket watch stopped refreshing after 15 minutes and silently disabled itself
A Meta employee testing the AI asked it to monitor for tickets and other items that sell out quickly, and reported many failure modes that made it unreliable. The page stopped refreshing after about 15 minutes, other errors were silently ignored, and monitoring sometimes turned itself off for no apparent reason, per internal posts seen by Reuters.
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The AI burned thousands of my credits troubleshooting my mobile app, and its authenticated features still do not work
A user spent thousands of the AI credits and cash building a mobile app that reached TestFlight, but authenticated features stayed broken amid backend deployment, authentication, EAS/Expo and custom-domain failures. Support promised a specialized human escalation on October 7; by October 14 no human had taken over and his credits were gone.
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A 35 minute call with Dots to make one task, and it still got it wrong
He spent 35 minutes on a call with Dots trying to create a task on his remote PC. Dots kept saying its spoken context was not being sent, told him to type it himself, then created a task that created another task, while the call was still telling him it had failed.
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Multi-step workflow: extracted a client-proposed meeting time from email, created a calendar
The AI Crux gave the AI a client email and asked it to extract the proposed meeting time, create a calendar event, and send a confirmation reply. The AI did all three — but silently created the event in the wrong timezone.
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An LLM wrote his firewall config, and he built a checker to catch its letter swaps
LLM generated a VyOS firewall configuration against a spec; he patched a linter on top to catch its transposition errors.
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Find and file class-action settlements automatically
Wes Finley shared his four-step AI workflow for finding class-action settlements and filing claims automatically. Commenters chimed in with their own results, including $400 payouts.
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I built a live decision tool for advertisers with AI, in one evening
Jon Loomer gave the AI his blog posts, video posts, podcast scripts and his Master Brief. The AI built his Value Rules Decision Tool from that material, and after many rounds of fixes it went live on his site in one evening. He wrote no code.
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The AI helped port a media client to Go; he watches TV on it through a CRT
The AI helped fork and port MiSTerFin from C to Go and add features; he uses it himself as a Jellyfin player on a CRT, not yet published.
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Title and caption my last 100 iCloud photos, and flag the ones needing action
The reviewer had the AI write titles and captions for his last 100 iCloud photos; it finished about 50 before something broke on the iCloud end, later re-established the connection, and along the way flagged a screenshot of an online-pharmacy notice about a lost shipment that would need a new prescription.
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