what have you done with AI today?

i'll start;

i have a major project for one of our partners that was going live that also contained hundreds of individual pdfs and ppts that were just 'dumped off' on us with a 'please make these available to users' for 30 different products; each of which required their own webpage file lists.

so i could have just been super shitty and made a 1990s netscape list of blue links and called it a day but no, i wanted to make this a little more polished and professional than that.

so i started out caveman-style and created a simple all-in-one page of shitty links then fed that into chatgpt and over several days it evolved into:
- shared resoures (javascript, css, images)
- individual document pages for the 30 indiviual pages only needed the table structures; all the formatting and behavior was in 2 shared files which made the constant tweaking super easy and easy to rollback
- created 'folder structures' for organizing groups of links in the table that you could open/collapse w/ a little animated triangle
- had it generate a 'warning xGB download' badge for any file over 500mb as a warning to end users
- tracked all items clicked with visible checkmarks
- built a cross-platform inline pdf viewer on the page that worked on mac/safari as well as PC browsers so it wouldnt try to download the pdf to whatever shitty acrobat reader or who-knows-what the end user installed on their desktop to open PDFs
- skinned the entire thing with 3d edges, spaced-out fonts, muted colors for buttons and highlights and polished movements as the PDFs opened and slid to the viewer to the top of the page.
- made everything work with keyboard shortcuts and added 508/ADA compliance because why the frick not? it was just a single sentence request for AI to do it.
- tracked and remembered what had been clicked on so when the user reopened the page it pulled that back from the database to make it easier when they checked back a week later to remember which links they had already viewed or downloaded.


turned out perfect and looks like someone spent months on it; i know jack-shite about HTML and CSS; just enough to do simple things and this made me look like a damn genius and any edits requested i am able to do in a matter of minutes and the entire system gets the tweaks.


this isn't a brag thread at all; far from it..but just pointing out how easy it is to look you spent weeks or even months on a project but it ultimately boils down to talking/arguing with a chat window for a few days

i would have done the BARE MINIMUM here because i don't have time for more; the very idea i would go to the trouble to add tool-tips when you hover over things, keyboard accessible, ADA compliant and sort through the files looking for ones over a certain size and give them a little badge/warning they are a big download...hell fricking no.