Michal BryxíMaybe making a thread of objectively good uses of AI can be useful for some future reference?
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Friend who is technical, but has no background in coding needed to make a code for PLC that would forcefully open a door and let them automatically close.
Hours of learning this programming language to do this one-off thing vs having a dialogue with #ChatGPT and get a working programme (on second go).
He's happy, because he learned that he is able to do those things, his boss is happy because project, clients are happy.
A friend of mine is mandatory on many meetings that don't event touch his area of expertise. He uses AI to transcribe the meetings, other AI to identify if there was any chance he was tasked to do something and turn it into Jira tickets.
Enormous amounts of employee time not burned. And huge peace of mind saved.
Every time some profoundly doof website makes the decision that "copying our content is bad" and mangle with the text selection feature, I'm forced to make a screenshot and extract the text somehow. For most cases #OSX #PreviewApp works well. For everything else...
Hobby article images are a perfect use of AI:
- There will never be a ready-to-use illustration/photo depicting exactly what I want and I can't change-that-one-thing.
- Fair usage with correct attribution is still a huge trap & work if one does not want to be a bad actor.
- Personally I also find the "AI aesthetics" quite charming. For now.
Copying recipes from online recipe sites. Yep. Sadly it's possible to mingle with selection & clipboard-ing to prevent users from copying content.
Luckily the OSX preview can very nicely copy text from images.
Illustration images for community posters. I have a clear vision in my head of something that is very specific and very quirky. I have zero budget to commission the work, next to zero talent to make it myself, and enough creative determination to make it the way I want.
When you want to work on the go. I literally just closed my laptop, moved to train and opened my ChatGPT session on phone.
Sure, some will try to argue that mobile versions of apps do exist, buuuut... Have you tried using excel from your smartphone?
In contrast - the chat interface works pretty much the same irrespective to which device I'm using.
Coding. Yep, I mean it. I can't care less about memorising clever language hacks nor algorithms/structures details.
For me code is only a vehicle that gets me to the goal. As long as I can describe the goal and understand the provided vehicle & it's tradeoffs I'm being more productive & happy.
And yes, contrary to the popular narrative of those that would "never touch AI", but somehow still know "it sucks": It works. Pretty well all things considered.
Episode 472: Should my junior dev use AI?
Yes, yes they should. Learning can happen in multitude ways and it's not uncommon for (not only juniors) to get stuck for hours and days on end on things that are solvable by second pair of eyes. If it needs to be robotic ones, so be it.
https://softskills.audio/2025/08/04/episode-472-should-my-junior-dev-use-ai-and-thrown-in-to-etl/
Auto-pre-generated in-print subtitles for your social media (Instagram Reels).
Yes, you can achieve the same by using non-AI tools.
Drafting alt text for images on socials. Yes i know you will tell me some funny story where it went hilariously wrong, bug then there are those:
https://fuzzies.wtf/@altbot/115029454502642708
Average human:
1) Would not put time to describe such details
2) Would not pay attention to the composition
3) Would not care about explaining the joke
Altbot (@[email protected])
@[email protected] The image features two side-by-side photographs of a Nokia mobile phone, with the text "Kids today would never understand this:" at the top. The left phone shows a battery level of 100% at 8:00 AM, while the right phone shows a battery level of 99% at 8:00 PM. The phones are identical, with the Nokia logo prominently displayed. The background is plain white, emphasizing the phones and the text. The image humorously suggests that the battery life of modern smartphones is significantly shorter than that of older models, highlighting a nostalgic aspect of technology from the past. Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.141 Wh
Menu posters for local food stand. It's 1000% what one usually sees when people "design" it themselves.
This has few footnotes:
1) #PIP is almost never a way to "help the employee", it's almost always a way for the company to cover their backs for soon to be firing. Especially in countries with some employee protection.
2) If an answer to a process is #ChatGPT, then it's not unlikely that the process is bullshit.
I was looking for quite a while for an online tool that would take a GPX and would give me GPS coordinates of a bounding box. Simple task, but could not find one.
ChatGPT5 whipped out python script including how-to use it almost faster than former Google results would come back.
And it worked.
Troxuklom@MichalBryxi it's amazing how far ai coding has come.
A couple years ago you could barely get a useable while loop out of it.