Using AI day to day

[10-Ring]

I've played with AI a bit and I'm actually starting to find it useful as opposed to a gimmick. Amazingly, just a couple of months ago I asked AI to write a program for work. It spit out a very generic program that would have required a lot of tweaking to be useful. I asked the same of it yesterday and what it produced would really only need vital things like the company name added. The technology is developing so fast that just two months ago it was rather useless, while I could complete what would normally be 4 hours of work in 20 minutes today. 

For those who use Excel, I used Chat GPT today to modify a very robust formula. The formula in question recognized and performed a function with the character "x", I needed it to perform the same function for "o" as it did for "x". Although it seems that would be simple to modify manually, it was not. I entered the formula into Chat GPT. Chat GPT accurately told me what the formula would do, then I simply instructed it to "modify the formula so that "o" yields the same result as "x". It took all of 3 seconds to return a formula that worked. I would have likely spent most of my workday tomorrow trying (probably unsuccessfully) to modify that formula. 

AI is quickly becoming part of my arsenal that I use to be more efficient and portray the illusion that I'm intelligent. Don't be scared of this stuff. I can certainly see how it could potentially be harmful. But it doesn't have to be. Use it for good and make your life easier. 

[MacGyver]

I use a couple private models and one public one.

Truthfully with the release of Claude Sonnet 3.6 in November - I went from my previous worldview of “this is kind of neat. I wonder what I could use this for?” to “oh… I should be using this a lot more.”

I have a lot of thoughts. I’ll save them for another post.

For now, I think it is sufficient to say that the future is already here - it’s just really unevenly distributed.  

[Erich]

agree,  AI ‘s ability to cut to the chase and deliver usable results has noticeably improved for the tech sector.

I was having some challenges connecting a third party client to Google BigQuery and it was helpful though it did not give a specific solution. The footnoted references saved a couple hours of scrolling thru search engine results.

I love that it can save big time on emails. I find work emails a pain point. PC concise emails without significant rewriting are a challenge. when I remember, I give highlights and voila! Just have to remember to use it up front versus realizing 20 minutes into writing one and debating word choices.

It probably would  have made this post better too