Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

- a sky shader with the "correct" color blue, sunsets that please me, and an astonometrically correct year round sun path

- github clone + extras

- a stack (FILO) based task manager / TODO list

- a CAD kernel with Blender frontend (WIP)

- a minecraft mod that makes real terminal emulators in block form

- ^ that but in Godot + a terrible "game" world (WIP)

- a somewhat failed app organizing claude workspaces

- a somewhat failed attempt at a VM framework for MacOS

- a somewhat abandoned gmail clone

- a farmland pricing model + maps etc.

- partially reverse engineered VCDS device

- a likely novel fractal system I need to work on some math to publish

- NTSC transmitter/receiver in gnuradio for the artful corruption of video

- backend for iOS appstore handling of account/subscription things

- an RSS / Podcast reader

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A Linux kernel module and userspace app to read the performance level of my Corsair AI Workstation PC (Strix Halo). Corsair only ships a Windows on screen display app and I was flying blind. AI helped me look over the Windows installer, decompile ACPI tables, and identify the WMI events. Built it all in Rust. When done I asked a different AI model to perform a security assessment and help me harden it. Way out of my wheelhouse, yet an afternoon project with AI.

https://github.com/pettijohn/corsair-ai-workstation-performa...

I made myself a silly ai-chungus it works as a series of containers that communicate over mqtt. I have an ollama shim for other services to talk to a model on my other machine, telegram shim that acts as a ui, a study component that will give me a random subject for me to study over the course of a week and I give a proper implementation (let’s say a ring buffer) and it reviews the code I wrote. It has some minor gen things using comfyui like a card pull system with cards, card text, rarity system, and special card effects like holo. And my favorite bit has been tying my todo system into it so I have a thermal receipt printer which will print a task I have to do for the day, prints a barcode, and when I finish the task I scan it with an iOS shortcut. It’s beautiful. What’s been the most fun was designing the mqtt topics in a way that makes everything else flow perfectly. Oh and there’s a tts system that uses kitten-tts which will produce audio for certain messages and an esp32 that gets those sound files and plays them on a speaker, or I can play the messages on telegram. Like if I do an /overview command on telegram i get an overview of my incomplete tasks and the ollama model helps prioritize. It’s my favorite use of ai junk at the moment

Something to help me remember the order of my jokes when doing stand up.