Summary
Nick Saraev presents a rapid-fire list of 31 unconventional ways people are using Claude and Claude Code, arguing that AI is in a “capabilities overhang” where it can do far more than most users realize. Prompts to reproduce the examples are linked in the video description.
The hardware and tinkering examples include removing ads from a smart TV, designing a custom dictation microphone with circuit, firmware, and 3D-printed case, building a polished air conditioner controller, jailbreaking a Kindle into a home dashboard, speeding up an old Wi-Fi router eightfold, turning a spare phone and DJI drone into a home security drone, and repurposing an old iPad as a smart-home panel. Other examples include replacing paid software subscriptions with custom apps, as Pieter Levels did, and auditing a car or hotel room for hidden listening devices.
The more serious stories include a software engineer with stage four breast cancer who used a team of roughly 30 Claude agents to research a biopsy plan later reviewed by a Dana-Farber lab, a solo operator who ran a biotech company with agents before Anthropic acquired it, and a researcher who had Claude write about 1,500 scripts to search NASA telescope data and surface a planet candidate.
The video is a good source of inspiration for anyone looking to push AI tools beyond email and chat.
📺 Source: Nick Saraev · Published November 02, 2026
🏷️ Format: Roundup
