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Literally stuff like this. I got sent a horribly formatted pdf with a list of dates and times for appointments I need to go to in the next few months. Going over the pdf and entering all dates in my calendar would've been a solid like 3 hours of work, so I used deepseek to parse the pdf and turn it into a csv I could add to my calendar. I later checked the csv side-by-side to check the dates and times were correct, and added it to my calendar. Bim bam boom.
I also used it to create a small script that would allow me to watch some e-learning i'm being forced to do at 2x speed client-side.
I wouldn't trust AI with anything mission-critical or with permanent consequences, though. Not without heavy testing while sandboxed.
I tried getting ai to make me a basic frontend app i could deploy at work cos we arent allowed to use anything external and i hate writing frontend. It literally couldnt even give me syntax correct code and meet any of my requirements. I vaguely remember someone saying the ai’s are trained on all the bad code like stack overflow questions and the billions of random uni project slop in github not the actually working code. It tracks because it never gives me anything up to date, always old libraries and standards and god forbid it generate frontend code it actually falls over itself completely
That's probably the only thing I'd trust an AI to one shot.
Have you tried it? I have to be really precise with my requirements the first time and maybe ill be lucky to get something working but if i ask for an edit i no longer receive valid html
Are you using chatgpt (the website), or an IDE/CLI tool like cursor, Claude code, windsurf?
Are you asking it for vanilla JS, typescript, react, or vue, or something else?
It's good to know when it falls off... I don't code for a living, so most of what i usually code is stuff to make my life a bit easier, and it's been decent at that, even though sometimes it shat the bed. If i'm finding myself arguing with the code pinball machine to get it to do what I want, that's when I just bite the bullet and learn to do it the old-fashioned way: tweaking someone else's code from stackoverflow or sthing.
In leaving this dogass company because they're all so obssessed with AI slop that half my time is fixing their shoddy code and the other half is getting chastised for not churning through tickets at an inhuman rate.