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Step-by-step guides for the AI video effects I share on Instagram, with the exact prompts included.

How do you get a camera to measure who's happy while playing PlayStation?

While my friends and I played PlayStation, my old security camera watched us: who's smiling, who's on their phone, who hasn't got up for 16 minutes. It measured all of it. Then it heckled us through its own speaker: “Did all three of you fail at the same time?” I didn't write a single line of code; I got an AI to do it by typing plain sentences. Here is the whole thing, explained for someone who has never done any of this.

How to turn an old security camera into an AI home assistant

I connected an AI to my 8-year-old Xiaomi security camera and named it Irgat (Turkish for farmhand). Say “Hey Irgat” and it wakes up: it turns on the lights, starts the robot vacuum, takes my photo and sends it to my computer, reads the news, and grumbles about overtime every time. Here's how I built it without opening the camera, traps included.

How do you let an AI assistant control your computer?

I tell my phone assistant "open that song on my desktop", "put the second PC to sleep", "make the lights blue" and it happens in half a second. I explain how I built it — a tiny agent on Windows and Mac, a waiting hub on the server, and one assistant tool — along with the traps I hit.

How to get an AI to haggle over a car listing for you

I sent my assistant a screenshot of a Tesla listing I liked: "Ask for 100k off, I'll settle for 80k." It called the seller itself, said it was an AI and asked for permission to record, asked about the accident history and made a cash offer. Here's how I built the negotiation scenario, why the numbers are computed in code, and the full instructions.

How do you get AI to make real phone calls?

I tell my assistant "call the barber and book a slot". It calls from my own phone system, talks, sends me what it learned on WhatsApp, then says goodbye and hangs up. Here's how I built it without Vapi, using OpenAI GPT-Live and Asterisk, in full technical detail, with every trap I fell into.

How do you get AI to schedule your Gmail emails?

In the last week I had AI schedule more than 40 personalised emails from my Gmail account. Claude Code uses my browser for me: it writes each email, checks it and sets the send time. Here's how, from zero, step by step.