#047Granted
Cat Texter
“Can AI make my cat text me?”
A door sensor, a camera and a vision model. When the cat goes out, you get a message in the cat's voice. It is insufferable and we love it.
Wish #047 · submitted by Dani, Budapest
You have a wish. We find out whether AI can actually grant it — on camera, mistakes included. If it works, the code is yours. If it doesn't, we say so.
- Wishes granted
- 31
- Wishes busted
- 16
- Repos published
- 31
How a wish becomes code
Three steps, in this order, every time.
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You wish
Anyone sends in something they want to exist. No technical detail needed — describe it like you'd describe it to a friend.
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We test it
Live on stream, we find out whether today's AI can genuinely do it. Plenty of wishes get busted here, and that episode still goes out.
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You keep it
Anything that works ships to GitHub under an open licence, with a wiki page explaining the prompts and the wiring.
The wishes
Every wish we've taken on, granted or busted.
#041Granted
Fridge Poet
“Can AI write a poem from whatever's in my fridge?”
Photograph the shelf, get a verse and a recipe you can actually cook. Works offline on a laptop.
#044Busted
The Meeting Escape
“Can AI invent a believable excuse to leave a call?”
It can, easily — which is exactly why we stopped. We built it, watched it work, and decided not to ship a lying machine. Episode explains the call.
#038Granted
Plant Nanny
“Can AI tell me why my plant is dying?”
Point a phone at a sad leaf, get a diagnosis and a watering schedule. Runs on a Raspberry Pi in the window.
#052In progress
Dream Logger
“Can AI turn my half-asleep voice notes into a dream journal?”
Mumbling at 3am transcribes badly. That's the whole problem, and it's what we're streaming this week.
#029Busted
Perfect Setlist
“Can AI build a setlist that reads the room?”
Every model produced something technically correct and completely joyless. Some wishes need a person. Busted, honestly.
The wiki
Prompts, wiring and hard-won lessons. Take any of it.
- Prompting The prompt that stops a model apologising at you 6 min
- Wiring Connecting a webhook to a language model in 20 lines 9 min
- Method How we decide whether a wish is even possible 4 min
- Hardware Running a model on a Raspberry Pi without cooking it 12 min
- Scaffold Our standard project layout, and why it's boring on purpose 5 min
About
Wishbusterz started from a simple, slightly annoying question: people keep saying AI can do anything, so — can it do this?
We take one wish at a time and actually try. The building happens live on Twitch, the edited version lands on YouTube, and everything that survives contact with reality gets open-sourced so you can run it yourself.
Half the wishes get busted. We publish those too. An honest failure is more useful than a demo that only works once.
Follow along
Builds on YouTube, mistakes live on Twitch.