alt Hacker NewsWhat sorts of things will the average, non-technical person think of automating on a computer that are actually quality-of-life-improving?
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simonw • last Sunday at 10:13 PM
My favorite anecdotal story here is that a couple of years ago I was attending a training session at a fire station and the fire chief happened to mention that he had spent the past two days manually migrating contact details from one CRM to another.
I do not want the chief of a fire station losing two days of work to something that could be scripted!
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A work colleague had a tedious operation involving manually joining a bunch of video segments together in a predictable pattern. Took them a full working day.
They used "just" ChatGPT on the web to write an automation. Now the same process takes ~5 minutes of work. Select the correct video segments, click one button to run script.
The actual processing still takes time, but they don't need to stand there watching it progress so they can start the second job.
And this was a 100% non-tecnical marketing person with no programming skills past Excel formulas.