A fast hit list of real things people have built or fixed with Claude Code, from deleting TV ads to finding a planet nobody had spotted.
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Big Idea
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We are in a capabilities overhang: Claude can already hack hardware, replace paid software and do real research, and most people only use it to write emails.
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Most people use Claude like a text box for emails, but it can operate real hardware and run research at scale. Saraev rattles off 31 examples: stripping ads from a TV, jailbreaking a Kindle, tripling router speed, turning an old iPad into a smart-home panel, replacing paid subscriptions with custom apps, agents that haggle, a hidden crypto miner found on a Mac, cancer research agents, exoplanet candidates, a new CRISPR-like enzyme, and game decompilation. The pattern is the same each time: point Claude Code at a device, dataset or annoyance, describe the outcome, and let it work. The prompts are offered free via the description.
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Paying for Claude and then using it just to send emails is like buying a Lamborghini and letting it idle in a Walmart parking lot. So in this video, I want to show you a hit list of extremely interesting high alpha ways that you can use Claude that you probably haven't heard of before. And I'm also going to give you guys prompts.
to reproduce all of these outcomes if you just click the second link in the description below. The whole idea is to help people understand that we're in a massive capabilities overhang right now. AI can do a lot more than most people think.
Check these out. First use case is to remove all of the ads from your television. This person got really pissed at the crappy TV that they bought.
So they sent Claude Code the store listing and then asked it, hey, can you hack into this TV and then remove all my ads? Claude rebuilt the entire thing from the ground up. And now there are no ads.
There's no... like bloatware or whatever. And there's a cute screensaver with their calendar, weather, you know, some straight payments and so on and so forth.
And then immediately after this, somebody else did this before their parents' TV and it blew up. So go do it for your own family. Claude can also build things.
This person wanted a dictation microphone, just a microphone that allows them to dictate to it, presumably to transcribe with AI. So instead of, you know, using their phone like a regular person, they actually just said to Claude, hey, can we build this? And then Claude went and it picked a bunch of parts.
It designed the circuit. It wrote the literal firmware. And then it made a case to 3D print it in literally just a couple of days.
Okay, how about this person who literally hacked together with Claude an air conditioning interface? Look how gorgeous that thing is. You know, there's no amount of money that you can pay an air conditioner manufacturer to get an user interface even remotely that beautiful.
They just sent a bunch of notes to Claude on what they wanted. And a couple hours later, they legitimately had a working controller. in their taskbar.
How about jailbreaking your Kindle? This person just plugged a Kindle into their laptop and said, hey, could you jailbreak this? Turns out you can hack for good.
So Claude removed all of the Amazon bloat and put it on their own private network. And then using this, somebody in Japan did it and then turned their Kindle into basically like a beautiful home dashboard like you might be able to buy from Apple or from Google. How about fixing your damn Wi -Fi?
This person sent Claude Code a photo of a really slow, painstakingly old Wi -Fi router. I think the speed is like five. or 10 megabits a second.
Claude went through every single setting, it found everything that was slowing it down, and then it fixed it, which improved their Wi -Fi speeds by 8x. Can you imagine improving your Wi -Fi speeds 800 % and not paying a single dollar for it? This person got a really cheap Bluetooth printer, like one of those receipt printers, and they just pointed Claude at the printer and said, hey, could you print an email every morning and give me a piece of paper so that I can just take it and then read the newspaper again?
Not super high ROI, but obviously super cute. This one is where somebody plugged a spare phone into a DigiDrone. In case you guys don't know, these things are really cool and you can take super sick photos and videos with them.
And then gave Cloud Code a prompt saying, hey, could you turn this thing into a home security drone instead? I want this thing to be prowling my premises like a guard dog. They linked it to their alarm and now it runs with no cloud like on the freaking DJI drone.
How about like repurposing your stuff? So this person had an iPad from I think like 2010 or 2012 and it couldn't run. apps because, you know, it's super old and whatever.
Obviously, planned obsolescence is a big deal, right? Your washing machine is going to work three years until you have to shell out a mortgage on your home to buy a new one. Well, Claude got into the iPad and then it built a wall panel for their smart home.
Legitimately, you know, a device that you could buy for 30 to $50, you know, have an infinitely hackable interface. Okay, this one's wild. Somebody bought a used BlackBerry.
Remember those for like 60 bucks and then reverse engineered it. And now they have a physical keyboard and Claude code in their pocket, and it's on a phone that realistically costs like 50 or 60 bucks, as opposed to these sexy, you know, minimalistic phones nowadays that cost like 10x that.
This guy canceled almost every software subscription he owns. His name's Peter Lovells. He's pretty big on Twitter.
And he just asked Claude, hey, could you build a replacement software app for me instead based off of this? It led him to having a freaking personal list of subscriptions that are now down to eight bills. I probably have 80 bills and two of his eight were actually just utilities and taxes, meaning he's now down to six bills total.
Okay, if we go institutional here, Anthropic actually proved that their agents can negotiate and haggle. They gave 69 employees their own clawed agents and then let the agents buy and sell goods with each other. And the agents, independently of the employees, closed almost 200 deals.
on their own. The ones with the stronger models, so the ones that were maybe ripping an Opus while the other ones were using a Haiku or Sonnet, got cheaper pricing. And then, interestingly enough, the dumber models didn't even notice.
So you can legitimately haggle and get whatever the hell you want with these models right now. Rip it on Facebook Marketplace. I know a lot of cracked 18 and 19 year olds that are doing that right now.
I'm not going to talk about the moral or ethical realities of this, but this fella connected Claude Code. to an Android phone that he had running around. And then he downloaded Hinge onto it, plus a couple of text files with preferences, deal breakers, you know, stuff they're looking for and whatever.
BBLs, who knows. It led to 25 matches a day. And the person went through these and said that around 60 % of the matches that they found on their phone were people that they probably would have picked themselves.
Although to be fair, somebody that would build a system like this is probably right swiping on everybody and their mom. Okay, how about this? You think your computer's really hot and you're like, what's going on with my, you know, with the temperature?
my hard drive like something's funky here and then you ask claude hey can you build me a simple temperature monitor just to like tell me what's going on well this is what a person did and they found that the readings were really high and then they fed that to claude and claude said dude you have a hidden crypto miner currently on your hard drive eating all 12 cores and running your mac at over 100 degrees let's fix this a really similar note another person connected claude code to the head unit in uh in a civic and claude found that there was a voice assistant always listening.
There was a call recorder on Bluetooth and there was some sort of back door that the vendor left in, presumably to be able to snoop on anything that that person was saying in the car. You know, I'm not going to shift blame to any particular car manufacturer. It's probably just a crazy ex, but that's pretty wild.
On that note, you can use Claude code to sweep through hotel rooms and Airbnbs and basically figure out if anybody's listening to you. So that's what this person did. Claude checked for Wi -Fi cameras, listened for like hidden trackers, scanned even their phone for spyware on it as well.
as like local Bluetooth devices. And then obviously allowed that person to do a very in -depth check to see if there were lenses around them, spying on them in the bathroom or whatever. So most of these so far are like, you know, kind of fun and enjoyable and neat, but this one's really serious.
There's this 35 year old woman called Miriam. She's a software engineer and she found out that she had stage four breast cancer as well as a rare tumor. And for those of you guys that don't know, you know, stage four breast cancer is, you know, one of the most advanced types of breast cancer out there.
And the... greater the number of stages, the lower the likelihood of success. And so, you know, Miriam, she hasn't cured her own cancer or anything like that, but she built a team of something like 30 cloud agents to go and research it.
This led to a biopsy plan that a lab at Dana -Farber reviewed and then later improved. OK, then Anthropic gave them $30 ,000 in Claude credits. I probably would, too.
And all of this is leading to a potential outcome where you have personalized vaccines for the curing of things like late stage breast cancer. I mean, obviously, I wish this person the best, but we're also seeing the same sort of thing with like curing cancer of your dog, you know, personalized therapies for pets. This stuff is.
currently achievable right now with current levels of technology. You don't even need a smarter model. This dude, Cody, ran a whole biotech company as a single operator, plus a bunch of clods with some part -time help for a year and a half.
And Anthropic just bought this guy's whole company in October, keeping in mind this was a company of him and their own agents. How about finding planets? You know, this fella had Claude write something like 1500 scripts to search seven years worth of NASA telescope data.
And guess what? Claude found a bunch of data that nobody had put together. And that led to realizing that there was a planet candidate out there.
Hopefully they named that puppy Claude. The next morning, somebody else tried the same thing, and they found two additional planets. It's like, how much discovery is currently sitting around in sources that we just have too much data for human beings to go through?
Speaking of, when Anthropic asked something like 1 ,000 clod agents to go and peruse some big database of DNA... It led to them finding a new enzyme similar to CRISPR that nobody had found before, which may entail capabilities like CRISPR's ability to help people make personalized vaccines and stuff like we were just talking about.
They just pointed a thousand clot agents at something. Keeping in mind, these guys have virtually infinite, you know. Claude Compute.
They could probably run the Fable 5 .5 or Mythos 6 at 10 ,000 tokens a second. And then they found something that could legitimately lead to a revolution in biotechnology. Okay, if we make this cute again, this person had a four -year -old and they loved...
this older kid's game. But the series was not in the language that they spoke, it was French. So they had Claude pull out all of the voices of the game, translate the voices, re -voice them using another service.
Claude did it all on its own with some free local voice models. And then the kid ended up having like a game that they can understand and play. This person had a nine -year -old who built their whole own website just by talking to Claude Code.
I don't know about you, but I was not building websites at nine years old. Imagine the clout that that little kiddo has on, you know, the freaking playground. showing off their favorite books and shit like that.
And I've actually done this one, but this person's wife. just wasn't sure whether or not, you know, a new bed that she was looking at would fit in their daughter's room. So she and, you know, her husband gave Opus 5 .5 the room size, gave them four photos, gave them a bunch of information about what it looks like.
Then actually built a 3D planner of the room that allowed them to walk through it and then see. Similarly, I was just looking for good photos of my girlfriend and I to put up around our home. And so I had Opus 5 .5 develop like a brief little walkthrough library that allowed me to resize the photo.
frames, place them wherever I wanted around my house, see how they looked in different lighting conditions for Christ's sake. And I ended up just one click buying a bunch of them as a result. But there are a lot of these sorts of construction use cases.
You could give Opus 5 .5 a floor plan and some photos and then actually recreate a three -dimensional house that you can walk through before the builders even build it. Can you imagine how much time, energy, and money both builders but also homeowners can save with technologies like this? And guess what?
You can build it today for like $5 in tokens. You ever wanted to like know your family tree? I certainly have.
Somebody in the Czech Republic. gave Claude a birth record and then said, could you find my family tree? It led to them finding a family tree that went back five generations.
They didn't know any of this stuff before they asked Claude. And now they have whole genealogy dynasties to go through. You can do that right now.
How about this person? They had a baby tracking app and it just started charging them out of fricking nowhere. There's no free tier.
I hate when companies do this. The good news is you don't have to suffer that anymore. They were just like, okay, screw you.
I'm going to get Claude to build it. And then they did. And now it's free for everybody.
Maybe you want to learn stuff. This person made a way to learn drones without having to actually jump into the drone and fly it around. Not only did you not have to buy that drone anymore, you don't even have to like risk it.
All they did was they asked for a clod skill that could build a site. with drones that you can put together part by part and then fly in a simulation. And the handling and everything like that of the drones is extremely similar to real drones.
So that when you eventually get to an actual controller with a real drone in front of you, it's like you have 10 ,000 hours in a flight sim. Have you ever wanted to learn something like really, really fast? Well, one of the best ways to do so is just find people that are incredible at the thing.
And the people that are incredible at the thing tend to know how to explain the thing far more simply than anybody else. Well, this person fed, you know, 40 hours of podcasts where developers explained how they got hired in depth, the step -by -steps, you know, the mindset to have and so on and so forth. And then Claude just digested it and then created a small little playbook of probably like 100x the information density that that person would have gotten out of listening to a podcast.
Again, you can do that right now. People are going to give me mixed feelings and responses to this, but I loved COD Modern Warfare 2. I was 360, no scope, and 12 -year -olds for a long time.
Mind you, I was probably 13. How dope would it be to be able to play whatever game you want again, whether or not there's a big multiplayer arena? Well, this dude decompiled pretty much all of COD Modern Warfare 2 in about a month.
Other people used COD to bring dead 3DS games, restore The Witcher. They had an older look for The Witcher 3 before the game developers came in and presumably kind of screwed everything up. You can now decompile games and then recreate them and make them however you want them to be.
Or how about porting old school games to other platforms? actually need emulators anymore. Okay.
You could actually just like ask Claude, Hey, I'm going to plug this thing in. What do I need in order to connect to it in order to have you read it? And can you help me rebuild this?
And it will do so. You can also use this as a creative or as a business owner to determine strategically what to build next. So this fella mapped all of the 150 ,000 -ish games on Steam and then plotted them on this cool dimensional graph and then just had Claude pick out the gaps between the games that nobody had created yet conceptually.
And it led to a co -op factory game where one of the players secretly shorted the company's stock, some sort of cool sort of mystery detective sort of thing. And that is genuinely a new concept that exists between a bunch. of pre -existing concepts that nobody has done before.
You could do this thing for virtually any business right now if you wanted to. And there's just so much other fun stuff. You know, this person gave Claude code their camera and pointed out the window literally all night and then went to bed.
And Claude took all these creative photos. There are other people out there that have used Claude to do all of their market research. Other people that have used Claude to become extremely fit to monitor their glucose, to, you know, scrape their freaking genome and determine ways that they could improve their health that doctors would probably charge $10 ,000.
of thousands of dollars for instead they only blew 20 bucks on a cloud subscription it really is probably the best time ever to be alive and watching my youtube videos no but just more broadly like being able to use this cool technology. So yeah, man, just like the world really is our collective gigantic oyster.
And whether or not you love oysters, I think there's a pearl in there for everybody. Hopefully you guys appreciate this video. If you want to learn some more cool cloud use cases, specifically ways to use cloud to make money, definitely check out maker school first link in the description.
Otherwise, I'll catch all y 'all in the next one. Oh, and please don't forget to subscribe. See ya.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Saraev opens with a Lamborghini-in-a-parking-lot jab at anyone using Claude only for email, then spends fourteen minutes proving the point with a rapid-fire list of real builds and fixes.
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