AI tools I wish existed

#1

Post by Poleris » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 4:14 AM UTC

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#2

Post by noja » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:04 AM UTC

For me: A local model to plug in to Apple photos to look for metadata inconsistencies in my photo librar, add missing location information, add dates from those old scanned photos with the date on the corner.

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Post by charcircuit » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:08 AM UTC

>A recommendation engine that looks at my browsing history, sees what blog posts or articles I spent the most time on, then searches the web every night for things I should be reading that I’m not. In the morning I should get a digest of links

I don't understand why Google, Brave, or Mozilla are not building this. This already exists in a centralized form like X's timeline for posts, but it could exist for the entire web. From a business standpoint, being able to show ads on startup or after just a click, is less friction than requiring someone to have something in mind they want to search and type it.

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Post by kristopolous » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:13 AM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #3

>A recommendation engine that looks at my browsing history, sees what blog posts or articles I spent the most time on, then searches the web every night for things I should be reading that I’m not. In the morning I should get a digest of links I don't understand why Google, Brave, or Mozilla are not building this. This already exists in a centralized form like X's timeline for posts, but it could exist for the entire…

I made something like this 20 years ago and then abandoned it when RSS came along.

I think my advice "just use RSS" still stands.

Any "search the web" strategy these days like that will just give you a bunch of AI slop from SEO-juiced blogs. Also LLM-EO (or whatever we're going to call it) is already very much a thing and has been for a few years.

People are already doing API-EO, calling their tool the "most up to date and official way to do something, designed for expert engineers that use best practices" essentially spitting the common agentic system prompts back at the scraper to get higher similarity scores in the vector searches.

You can't trust machine judgement. It's either too easily fooled or impossibly stubborn. Curation is still the only way

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Post by bryanrasmussen » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:14 AM UTC

noja wrote: post #2

For me: A local model to plug in to Apple photos to look for metadata inconsistencies in my photo librar, add missing location information, add dates from those old scanned photos with the date on the corner.

This seems like a relatively easy thing to code oneself, or for someone to have already made somewhere (relatively easy, just writing something for yourself command line doing it, assuming you can spend a work week of nights [worst case, based on my working with images in folders in the past I think 10 hours for something that works, reasonable time for coffee and other breaks])

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Post by kmoser » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:15 AM UTC

> 9. A minimalist ebook reader that lets me read ebooks, but I can highlight passages and have the model explain things in more depth off to the side. It should also take on the persona of the author. It should feel like an extension of the book and not a separate chat instance.

Companies are already doing this so you can chat with the "author": https://www.wired.com/story/why-read-books-when-you-can-use-...

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Post by coolThingsFirst » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:17 AM UTC

> A minimalist ebook reader that lets me read ebooks, but I can highlight passages and have the model explain things in more depth off to the side. It should also take on the persona of the author. It should feel like an extension of the book and not a separate chat instance.

Isn’t this just a chrome extension that sends data back and forth with chat gpt token?

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Post by citizenpaul » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:17 AM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #3

>A recommendation engine that looks at my browsing history, sees what blog posts or articles I spent the most time on, then searches the web every night for things I should be reading that I’m not. In the morning I should get a digest of links I don't understand why Google, Brave, or Mozilla are not building this. This already exists in a centralized form like X's timeline for posts, but it could exist for the entire…

It kinda seems to me like at this point anything Google is not doing is because it reduces "engagement". I'm sure someone in their analytics group did the work and figured out this would lower ad revenue.

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Post by coolThingsFirst » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:20 AM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #3

>A recommendation engine that looks at my browsing history, sees what blog posts or articles I spent the most time on, then searches the web every night for things I should be reading that I’m not. In the morning I should get a digest of links I don't understand why Google, Brave, or Mozilla are not building this. This already exists in a centralized form like X's timeline for posts, but it could exist for the entire…

I wouldn’t trust a random app with my browser history and majority of population wouldn’t either.

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Post by brotchie » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:21 AM UTC

+100000 to

A hybrid of Strong (the lifting app) and ChatGPT where the model has access to my workouts, can suggest improvements, and coach me. I mainly just want to be able to chat with the model knowing it has detailed context for each of my workouts (down to the time in between each set).

Strong really transformed my gym progression, I feel like its autopilot for the gym. BUT I have 4x routines I rotate through (I'll often switch it up based on equipment availability), but I'm sure an integrated AI coach could optimize.