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by quonn 877 days ago
Couldn't conventional software have done this? And it didn't. So why would AI do it now?
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They're not big enough to pay a developer to write and maintaining a software system.

From what I've heard, they were able to use ChatGPT to write applescript shortcuts to automate a lot of the tedious repetitive tasks, without knowing how to code.

Basic things like "Open file in photoshop" then "mark file as in-progress in google sheet", etc...

So basically the value add was being able to write applescript shortcuts without knowing how to code just by going back and forth with ChatGPT.

(This is a boring example but something us developers might take for granted re: use cases for non-developers)