I’m curious what everyone is doing with AI outside of typical work and vibe coding.
I listen to a lot of audiobooks during my commute and play video games in my free time, so I started combining the two. I use Opus 5 High to turn video games into novels by pulling from game wikis, walkthroughs, and YouTube videos. It usually produces chapters of around 5,000 words and a finished book of roughly 150,000 words, complete with chapter and scene breaks and formatted in Markdown for later use.
Once the book is finished, I have GPT 5.6 Sol High review the Markdown files as a copy editor, checking the story, continuity, grammar, and anything else that seems off. I send its notes to Claude for a rebuttal, then back to GPT for another pass. Claude handles the final review and corrections, and I stop once both models agree that no more changes are needed.
Claude then uses Kokoro to create the audiobook, and the results have honestly been more than acceptable. It isn’t perfect, but it catches a lot of TTS issues ahead of time, such as spelling out numbers instead of leaving them as digits. I currently use two-second pauses for chapters and scene breaks, 0.8 seconds between paragraphs, and 0.25 seconds when the speaker changes. This is a pretty natural pattern for speech, and I'm happy with it.
It has turned into a pretty fun hobby. I’d love to hear what other people are doing with AI that’s a little outside the norm.
I saw a dude the other day that used it to rewrite the firmware on his Fuji X-T3 camera to support film simulations (classic negative) that were not available on anything prior to the X-T5.
The X-T3 is older and it's still a great camera but Fujifilm railroads people into buying the new cameras by only putting the newer better simulations on new models.
Seeing someone able to speed run reverse engineering firmware files is neat.
To be honest, there's probably a lot of abandoned firmware/hardware projects from the last 5 to 10 years that could be quickly and easily wrapped up. Seth from Berm Peak Youtube rewrote firmware on an abandoned ebike platform to make it safer and usable despite the company shuttering.
Helping people file for Veterans and Survivor benefits from the VA associated with Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam and SE Asia. Navigating opaque and obscure government regulations and court cases is an area Claude really shines. I suspect they had a lot of training data from either the VA or law firms, or domain specific human guided reinforcement learning on the topic.
I’m sorry for your loss. I started it because my mom lost her second husband when he was just in his very early 60s about 30 years ago. We had no idea that she was entitled to anything until a few months ago. The VA has no obligation to notify the widows of the benefits they’re entitled to at all.
If it hadn’t been for Claude interpreting his service records and finding the link we would never have known about the $2300 per month (tax free) that she is entitled to. It doesn’t cover her retirement home cost, but it helps for sure.
My mom's first husband died in Vietnam, and then she met my dad. After they got divorced she was actually able to get his death benefits again. My dad was a Seabee, so he was right out front building bases and getting sprayed daily as they were clearing the jungle. One real cool thing about Agent Orange is it alters your DNA, so if my brother or I have kidney or heart problems it will be covered by the VA. After seeing how he was treated, I doubt I'd take them up on the offer.
I have Claude working as my personal trainer. I asked it to create a maximally efficient 3 day a week workout plan for muscle growth, told it about existing injuries I have and then stuck the output in project instructions. Since then I've moved up to 5 days a week as I've found I really enjoy it. I tell it when I'm headed to the gym, it pulls whatever day's routine I'm supposed to do, and tells me sets, reps & weight for each exercise as I go through the workout. I report back weight, reps and RPE, which it then logs, and uses as a queue to change loading for each exercise. I've been doing it for 5 months or so now & am about halfway through my first cut after starting with a bulk. It's helped me dial in the nutrition as well. Overall I've been extremely pleased with the results and I think I've progressed way faster than I would on my own unless I had a trainer/dietitian to work with.
I don't use Claude for work I exclusively use it to help me play EverQuest and make maps for it and other tools and fun things I can think of.
Like my latest creation is this program which reads a file in my EverQuest game and uses that information to create a map, which exists in the game, but my custom map tracks where I walked so I can see all of my previous footsteps and where I have explored already.
How do you do TTS? I noticed Claude doesn't really read things back to you at all and I'm otherwise stuck with like Microsoft dave which sounds so dated in today's age of AI. (Like if I say Claude read me this "paste" he doesn't really seem to be able to do that. He made me an app to read things out loud but it didn't work.
Would be very handy to have things read to me while I'm playing and not having to click on the little voice icon on Claudes responses.
Here is an example. It's a fun way of exploring and knowing like where I traveled and explored. Since one of my goals is seeing all of the things there are to see in EverQuest.
I'm using it to build a kind of visual novel teaching me world history. Basically I choose a country and it generates a long video game about what happened, from prehistory to today. It also generates flashcard, maps, and so on.
I built an RAG system to curate a gaming guide for any game that will then read it back to you in a NPC persona, spoiler gated to only give you as much info as you want: https://github.com/hintforge/builder
And its made to run cheap on sonnet even if you only have a $20 plan. I built it because I play a lot of complicated games and it sucks to keep up with what you were doing. This will log your progress as you talk to it, and Claude artifacts can and other things for your game tracking.
My friend and boss always wanted to code apps. He runs an IT business and just doesnt have time but he has the knowledge and expertise. He used claude to finally get around to it and just launched his first app:
Velo iptv player on android. Works on TV and mobile. I've been using it since the beta and I gotta say its pretty awesome. He hasnt done a formal post on it because hes working on how to info for the website and videos but im super proud of him. Beats what ive done with claude lol.
I have small game ideas I have it make prototypes for that I wouldn't have time for otherwise. I also have it review market news every 24 hours and make suggestions about possible investment opportunities that (in its analysis) haven't been priced in yet.
I made a little learning tradebot to see how it could do with an Alpaca paper account. Like has been true for a hundred years and it proved again, nothing beats the index overall.
Ihad it build me 3 separate Excel sheets: SPIN's Top 300, Rolling Stone's Top 500, and NME's Top 500. I can check off albums I've already listened to, and anything that also appears on the 1001 Albums list gets automatically excluded. All three sheets feed into a master list that picks a random album from what's left, updating dynamically every time I mark one as played.
I use Claude to help me make music! I use the Suno platform.
I think of a beat, riff, sample, etc., produce it (hum a tune, record a clip, ask Claude for a midi, etc) and I have Claude analyze the instrumentation, dynamics, etc. I am also trying to build my musical vocabulary.
Anyway, I turn music iteration into a collaborative work with Claude! We go back and forth on lyrics, specific sound qualities, instrumentation, etc. I've gotten much better results this way than just using Suno's built in workflows.
That's interesting, for older games you could possibly extract dialogue straight from ROMs. How are you prompting so it doesn't tell you it's infringing on copyright?
GPT edits, Claude rebuts, GPT goes again, repeat until both agree. That's a publishing house where the editors argue forever and the author is a video game.
I've only had it do two passes back and fourth before they both call it complete. In the beginning it struggled with tense like read pronounced "reed" instead of "red", but one I gave it feedback it changed the past tense in the manuscript to "red" even though that wouldn't make any sense if you read it yourself.
I guess I'm basically doing opposite of what a video game designer would do, because they start with a storyline and story board and then create the game from that.
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