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I thought it might be fun to make a somewhat recurring thread to see what fun and interesting ways people are using AI in their personal or entrepreneurial lives (other than the obvious coding assistant).
Curious how others see the future utility in Chat GPT Agent Mode and other similar operator capabilities. It seems like the holy grail in AI is to have a personal assistant that will magically book you flights and a vacation package but personally I'm so particular when it comes to choices like that I can't ever see myself relying on it to make such impactful decisions on my behalf.
The one great use case I found is that it's finally capable of completing my annual HR compliance/DEI/HIPAA training modules which can take 3-6+ hours a year (an entire SAAS industry built regulatory capture).
I've always thought these HR training modules are actually harmful in that by wasting your time they drive resentment towards whichever minority / victim groups they are purporting to help. Ironically I found myself paying more attention to these training modules than I've ever in the past because instead of blindly trying to skip through everything as fast as possible I found myself captivated watching the AI narrate itself as it navigated the UI and also (as instructed) try to skip through things as quickly as possible.
It is kind of captivating, watching it go through this. I wonder if it harms your agent to get "trained" -- maybe it's going to start responding to you with a more DEI-inspired tone...
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113 sats \ 2 replies \ @gmd OP 29 Jul
haha yeah. It's funny it's much better than me answering quizzes especially when it's dumb stuff like "which poorly named california law protects workers from XYZ" (previously I screenshot and copy paste into AI before answering). I was surprised I had enough credits on the "plus" plan to make it through so many modules.
I suppose it's just a matter of time before these HR software companies block all of the AI agents.
Maybe I lack imagination but I can't think of too many other use cases:
  • cheating on online homework assignments
  • driving school for tickets ...?
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perhaps this should tell us something about compulsory online educational activities...
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113 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd OP 29 Jul
💯 cya BS.
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83 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 29 Jul
I haven't been able to play with AI much the last few weeks - other than the usual autocomplete stuff. We are making seemingly good use of Cursor's code review agent on our GitHub though.
My current task is of complexity level 3, but I'm hoping after it's completed I can vibe some features.
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My current task is of complexity level 3, but I'm hoping after it's completed I can vibe some features.
I've been thinking a lot about #1057610 and what that means for how to approach AI in general. I don't think it means much for vibe coding because that's a form of translation and breakdown, but I do think it is meaningful for everything where language is a barrier we'd gladly not take if the LLM were our human assistant either.
Either way I catch myself thinking "does this really need a chatbot" every time I read an AI article (i.e. every hour or so lol)
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Uff. Nice use case! But we are approaching the future where "human id" will be obligatory for such tests.
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Other than using AI for coding agents, i'm using OpenAI image-edit model to generate custom paper wallet with a personal touch (loved one's face on it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm0YkubCZGc Still working on it ofc https://hongbaob.tc/
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I was bearish on agents, until I started using them for coding projects. Now I love 'em.
Decided to write my own framework for agents, Agro to take advantage of something I haven't seen any else do yet: run the same task through all the major coding agents: aider, claude code, gemini cli.
I think my biggest finding is that you can "vibe code" hundreds of commits on top of each other as long as you do QA for each commit. Here's two repos I've been working with, you can see each prompt, and the commits (that were accepted):
If you'd like to be a beta tester, I can get you some Gemini-2.5-Pro credits gratis. Shoot me a message (contact info in bio)!
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd OP 21h
pretty neat! Haven't coded in over a decade but I find myself doing something similar for IRL ai prompts: I have a chatgpt and grok tabs pinned and it just takes a quick copy-paste to run queries to both in parallel and sanity check both answers against my own meat-computer to vibe check for consistency and triangulate the truth.
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Making documentation AI model are best. Chat GPT is not good at all, best are Gemini Code Assist and Meta AI, Copilot is intermediate
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Good
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