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Python. I heard it could automate my world. I started to learn how to use it. Today I tried a shortcut. AI. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know I know. I wanted to import data from a web page - title and publishing dates from Stephen King books. I wanted to update my caliber library with the correct metadata from the online source.

I tried three different AI's. Claude. Pi. And ChatGPT. I've spent all day copying and pasting error messages copying pasting new scripts running scripts copying and pasting error messages etc etc etc.

I could have gone line by line through my caliber library manually in much less time than I have spent doing this.

There's no question the AI knows how to program in Python better than I do. What hope do I have of ever reducing my workload significantly using Python?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, Al Sweigart (2020)

as one pundit mentioned, our current generation of AI is just “glorified predictive text” – it doesn’t know how to program, it does know huge sets of probabilities of else coming after elif coming after if

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yup. It's all probability distributions fitted to a shit ton of text fetched either from data stores or through web crawlers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

don’t skip over the “glorified” part either – people were playing with these same ideas with Usenet bots back in the ’80s: Mark V. Shaney