Simple process to import books without use of metadata

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kacir

Have you actually tried to us the AI for coding?
I have and I have been astonished how well it did work.
You have to write a good prompt. . . .

Just do not run the script or a command on a production system without a backup. And do not run things you do not understand how they are supposed to work. Also, take everything it produces with a healthy dose of skepticism. You should do that anyway, even if you get an answer from a person.

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Originally Posted by kacir

I have friends that are professional coders and their big-name software house employer pays for private instance of Claude AI for them to use it at work.

Me too, a couple of ex USSR software engineers who worked in my team. Most of their current employer's clients are ITC enterprises, who also use AI… as a result support requests have declined dramatically over the past couple of years.

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Last week I wanted to know how many parliamentarians sit in India's federal, state and territory legislatures - Gemini produced the answer (5,013) in a couple of seconds. I asked for a list in a csv file along with the number of eligible voters each represents, within a couple of minutes I had a csv file on my desktop.

It would have taken me hours do the same with search, copy and paste… realistically I wouldn't have done it.

This week I tasked MS CoPilot with creating a script to export and import MS Word's Autocorrect First letter Capitalise Exceptions list as xml. Why? So that I could more easily remove a lot of spurious entries.

Got it right first time… didn't look at the code, used it and binned it. I shouldn't need it again… now that I've unchecked the option that was updating the Capitalize first letter of sentences exceptions list automatically.

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[kovidgoyal]

AI is more useful the more skilled you already are at coding. As in most things in life, the more work you have put in preparing yourself the more you benefit from new opportunities. I spent the last month implementing a completely ridiculous spec (the ICC color profiles one) from scratch for a project and used AI extensively to ask questions about the spec, translate tables from PDF documents into data files, speculate about the causes of behavior in another implementation I was trying to mimic, but wrote almost all of the actual code myself. The consultation with the AI was greatly beneficial, so much so that I exceeded my free tier usage for the month. But there were plenty of occasions when the AI made mistakes and once or twice kept insisting on them even after I pointed them out. So I generally dont trust it to write code, I do that myself, as I find actually writing my own code is faster than reviewing other people's (including AI's) code.