Set a car radio clock from a photo
A driver sent ChatGPT a photo of their car radio. It recognized the factory radio and explained the right way to set the clock.
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A driver sent ChatGPT a photo of their car radio. It recognized the factory radio and explained the right way to set the clock.
One person asked Claude for a funny, sarcastic post giving away 40 glass mason jars in a "Buy Nothing" group.
Remodeling a room, one homeowner used Gemini to troubleshoot and got lots of ideas they hadn't considered, though it sometimes contradicted itself.
A job seeker used ChatGPT to improve their resume and cover letter. They said it takes some finesse but was worth it.
Sitting with a relative in the hospital, one family asked ChatGPT what could be causing his decline. It named a condition they raised with the doctors, who then changed his treatment.
A parent asked ChatGPT for a good home experiment to show what entropy is and got an excellent answer.
A hobbyist asked Gemini Pro for a Python Qt app that sends g-code files to a CNC machine or laser cutter, and it runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
A developer was stuck on a tangle of escapes and encodings. ChatGPT worked out the whole sequence and how to undo it right away.
A developer had ChatGPT write a script to parse a big file and lay out the results a certain way, then read through the script and checked the output on a sample.
PDFs with certain Unicode characters weren't rendering, so one developer had Claude Code build a custom font fallback system to fix it.
A developer pasted a ticket with examples into Cursor, running Claude, and got working bash scripts that cleaned up stale cloud resources. It saved hours.
One developer pasted an error and some code into Claude, and it spotted the hidden mistake at once. Earlier, it had saved them hours converting prototype code from React to Vue.
A Bash script had worked for years until it didn't. One developer pasted it into ChatGPT and asked what was wrong, and it found a single-bracket versus double-bracket mistake in a condition.
One person mocked up a page in Photopea, gave Claude the image, and had it write the HTML. After a few tweaks, all the main pieces were in place in about an hour.
A developer was confused by their own years-old code. ChatGPT summarized it and explained the library calls in under two minutes.
Never having built a Chrome extension, one developer got an interactive tutorial with starter code from ChatGPT and fixed bugs with its help.
A developer gave Claude Code a pull request link and asked it to fetch the review notes. It did, then worked through each one.
Switching to Linux, one person had Claude write a migration script. Browser sessions, SSH configs, and email all came across smoothly.
Living with chronic sinusitis, one person used Claude Code to build a private, local web app that tracks symptoms with a standard questionnaire, to look for links with their environment and treatment.
One person used Claude Cowork to sort a downloads folder of 1,500 files, and Claude Projects to write one of their best proposals.
Tired of previewing files by hand, one developer asked Claude Code for help and had a working viewer in two hours. They kept adding to it until it showed diffs of an agent's edits.
One developer had ChatGPT write a Python script that watches files and redraws the plot whenever they change. It was quicker than writing it himself.
One developer asks Claude Code things like "where does this happen?" or "give me 3 possible causes," and has it review work before they submit it.
A developer asked ChatGPT how to add a copy-to-clipboard button in a UI library. It said the library didn't have one and wrote one, which saved some digging.
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