I think ChatGPT just did the most useful thing yet for me. My wife had a csv of names and dates, and a 88 page pdf of tickets for the symphony on various nights. The tickets weren’t in order by date, but she needed to assign 4 unique tickets to each person in the CSV for the date they requested, extracting the tickets from the big PDF into their own.
It’s something that would’ve taken an hour to do by hand and have been very error prone. I considered writing some Python to do it which probably would’ve taken me 20-30 minutes, but instead I uploaded the two files to ChatGPT and wrote out my prompt. It went into some kind of mode that I’ve never seen before where it was writing python (that it doesn’t show you unless you click the little code button), running the python, spot checking the output, identifying errors, then trying to debug the errors and modify the python code. It went along doing this for a few minutes and then abruptly stopped. I had to ask “are you done?” and then it spun to life again and asked if I wanted to download a zip file. The whole thing took probably 5 minutes. Of course I had to spent another few minutes spot checking the results.
How do I get this kind of debugging assistant for my daily programming? All the AI plugins I have used just generate code. They can’t run it or check the output or even edit my existing code in place.
mplorentz / Matt Lorentz
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