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What's the best thing an AI chatbot has done for you so far?

Posted on 6/27/24 at 8:44 am
Posted by VolSquatch
First Coast
Member since Sep 2023
5161 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 8:44 am
And what is the simplest request that it could not fulfill?

Just curious to see some answers and potentially get ideas.

I mostly just use mine as a personal assistant and to extract data from large datasets faster than I could do it myself (and most importantly, it works in the background while I do other stuff). It saved me probably 3 hours yesterday trying to find stuff for stupid KPIs

As for the second question, it still needs work on creating what should be fairly simple multi-step workflows that make sense for certain types of software I use. But that will get way better over time.
Posted by TigerinATL
Member since Feb 2005
62433 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 8:59 am to
For me it's the coding. Not just helping me with some of my every day coding tasks (not a dev but do a decent amount of scripting to automate workflows). But its ability to write python scripts without me needing to know python has been very useful. I've had quite a few data tasks where Excel and similar BI tools have failed me, choked on the less than perfect data, or just not been easy enough to use and I'll get AI to write me a python script that does exactly what I need.
This post was edited on 6/27/24 at 9:00 am
Posted by GrammarKnotsi
Member since Feb 2013
9839 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:10 am to
Went for a promotion posted at work..uploaded my resume and the job posting, and asked GPT to match me up

Three months into my new role, currently
Posted by Roy Curado
Member since Jul 2021
1356 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:33 am to
It makes me sound much more articulate than I am. It also helps with being concise, which is a needed skill in Corporate America.
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
86673 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 9:46 am to
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What's the best thing an AI chatbot has done for you so far?
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Posted by Pepperoni
Mar-a-Lago
Member since Aug 2013
3906 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 1:59 pm to
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It makes me sound much more articulate than I am. It also helps with being concise, which is a needed skill in Corporate America.
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Posted by Chimlim
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Jul 2005
17745 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 4:31 pm to
Writing PowerShell scripts. I have hundreds of scripts saved away.
Posted by Thundercles
Mars
Member since Sep 2010
6030 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 5:09 pm to
I'm learning networking and ChatGPT was actually really great to bounce questions off of and actually converse to learn. I'd watch a bunch of videos then ask ChatGPT a bunch of questions on the matter, or ask to confirm understanding, or simplify things and it did extraordinarily well.
Posted by Hopeful Doc
Member since Sep 2010
15388 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 6:10 pm to
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Writing PowerShell scripts. I have hundreds of scripts saved away.


I needed one (unattended upload to SFTP + moving/deleting the leftover files).


The ChatGPT solution did not return a functioning option for me despite trying to modify it a few dozen ways. I had to go digging and find a solution myself. I was quite sad. It returned something that looked well-written and like it should have worked. But it did not.



I did have it write a very basic website in HTML that I am modifying. It worked fine for that.
Posted by TigerinATL
Member since Feb 2005
62433 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 6:16 pm to
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Writing PowerShell scripts. I have hundreds of scripts saved away.

I needed one (unattended upload to SFTP + moving/deleting the leftover files).

The ChatGPT solution did not return a functioning option for me despite trying to modify it a few dozen ways


Have you tried Python instead of PowerShell? I'm using GitHub Copilot, which is Microsoft's paid, coding specific version of ChatGPT, and I have set up an unattended SFTP daily download and file archiving script in python with the script running on a schedule with Windows Task Scheduler.
Posted by Hopeful Doc
Member since Sep 2010
15388 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 6:29 pm to
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Have you tried Python instead of PowerShell?



I did not. I was writing for the bash terminal on a synology to run once per minute (pretty stupid workflow that I’m beholden to).


I ended up using lftp to pass all the commands at once.


ETA- I realize the way I originally wrote it that you may think I confused powershell commands and Linux terminal commands. This was not the case. I was just going along the theme of “damn it. Everyone got useful code snippets out except me.”
This post was edited on 6/27/24 at 6:33 pm
Posted by Stexas
SWLA
Member since May 2013
6544 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 6:59 pm to
I’ve had luck using it for summarizing documents that I’ve created or creating an executive summary of an email thread. I still haven’t figured out how to use it on spreadsheets. Do y’all copy and paste a link to them?
Posted by triggeredmillennial
Member since Aug 2023
182 posts
Posted on 6/27/24 at 7:37 pm to
Update policy manuals or create new policies. Has saved us 90% of the time that used to go into it. Just give the criteria and it creates all of the extraneous verbiage.

Also for excel vb scripts to do one off data analysis/comparisons.

Business has some regulatory guidelines also and those are public record so it can easily create policies or procedures based on current regs. Again we give the high points and it makes it sound nice (and we only have to edit/format and not type it, extra time savings).
Posted by TigerFanatic99
South Bend, Indiana
Member since Jan 2007
32531 posts
Posted on 7/1/24 at 9:44 am to
We have a private gpt version for work. I'll feed it our ABAP development guidelines and then the program I wrote and have it do an initial peer review before I send it off to an actual human for peer review.
Posted by Marciano1
Marksville, LA
Member since Jun 2009
19319 posts
Posted on 7/2/24 at 8:47 pm to
It's found mistakes in SQL for me and saved me a lot of time when a query wouldn't give me the results I was looking for.
Posted by Pauvetibete
Member since Apr 2022
999 posts
Posted on 7/4/24 at 12:01 am to
Creating policies for specific customers. Set the ground rules of what the policy is about, give it directions such as questions that must be answered and let it do it's thing. Has probably saved me 100 hours alone this year.
Posted by GurleyGirl
Georgia
Member since Nov 2015
14169 posts
Posted on 7/4/24 at 5:57 am to
I mostly use Microsoft's Copilot for general queries that provide good result summaries all with links to the source material.
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