I have tons of random receipts that come in every month that need to be captured, memoed, categorized and sent off to finance.

I made python to read image/pdf/whatever to text, easy.

I regex the value out, hard and fragile

I try to pull the vendors name out, just not reliable

Category... nearly impossible so i need to make some form of memory system to remember once I do it.

Python renames the file with input if it needs it and provides the meta

OR

python to text because it's effciient

api call to Ollama and let my old 2070 work it out. (highly reliable)

python renames the file and provides the meta

It's small, low power, hard to do with code, basically the perfect use case. This is a good use of AI

Go Rewrite FFMPEG in Rust.... that's a bad use of AI.

There's a lot of people out there using it in ways that cost a lot more than human eyes and have horrible societal and environmental impacts.

There's a lot of people using it for dictation, document triage and basic scripting where it has great advantages and isn't making the world a worse place.

His article is at odds with a great deal of his book. I wonder if this isn't just a grab to get hardcore anti-ai to buy it.