I fixed a hardware problem in 5 minutes. With zero hardware experience.

I fixed a hardware problem in 5 minutes. With zero hardware experience.

A few weeks ago, I bought an iClever mouse with extra buttons. Perfect for productivity — except I could not find a driver to map them to copy/paste.

Hours of searching. No solution.

I described the problem to Claude Code: "I need to map mouse button 4 to copy and button 5 to paste."

Its suggestion? Hammerspoon.

Five minutes later: working, 46 lines of Lua code that intercepts mouse events and translates them to keyboard shortcuts.

This was my first hardware-adjacent project. Ever.

AI changed how I approached it. I went from "this probably needs some driver I'll never find" to "let me ask Claude" to "done."

AI tools aren't just making us better at our jobs anymore. They're expanding what problems we believe we can solve — even outside our work.

What personal problems have you solved using AI?