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by TeMPOraL 1184 days ago
Random and silly use case from today: I needed to import a list of Polish bank holidays into our shared calendar. Last year, I tried to Google for a ready-made .ical file, and after failing to find one in 30 minutes, ended up manually entering everything into the calendar myself. This year, I just opened the first page, copy-pasted the listing to ChatGPT, and prefixed it with a very trivial prompt:

"Below is a list of holidays in Poland for 2023. Please rewrite it into ICAL format."

Five seconds later, I had a blob of text I could copy over to a text editor, save as .ical, and import to the calendar.

The most crazy thing is just how natural these kinds of interactions are becoming to me. It literally took me more time to write this comment than it took to do the thing I just described.