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I work for someone who uses Apple Shortcuts and Zappier to bridge things together, that's working with common stuff like transcribing to One Note or Notta to No

by ge96 2y ago

I work for someone who uses Apple Shortcuts and Zappier to bridge things together, that's working with common stuff like transcribing to One Note or Notta to Notion edit: they would use ChatGPT to ask questions/find direction but wouldn't actually use the code if any was given but I think if you're using say WP where you can just dump in random code via a plugin, people would try that

yakshaving_jgt 2y ago
Surely the next prompt would be > I pasted the code you gave me into my Wordpress and now when I refresh the page it’s just white. Why?
- ge96 2y ago
  "Is there a line break at the end of your file?" edit: I've seen this as a potential answer before
eXpl0it3r 2y ago
I can see something like Shortcuts/Zappier or some visual things to work quite well for non-programmers. After all, we've had lots of businesses using rule engines and visual editors to "program" their business logic for a long time. I just don't see "AI" spitting out code and people just putting it somewhere and it all working just fine, without having to learn some of the basics first. Maybe some highly integrated system could work, that does the doing for you, and users don't _have_ to deal with code and the tooling to run it. But those systems will again be quite limited, so questionable how "personal" it gets. One thing I've used "AI" for multiple times already with little to no modification, is to write some one-off script to automate some basic repetitive task (e.g. batch converting something with ffmpeg). Can you call this personal software?
- ge96 2y ago
  I think any code is software/for you = personal It is crazy what Zapier does. I learned Airtable's API myself and setting up the webhooks took me a bit where as it's just there for Zapier. Started to make me think which way is faster do it myself or use this bridge granted Zapier costs money but yeah. So funny how things go we wanted to use Airtable now they're like "we want our own branded Airtable" and eventually we'll probably just go with a hosted DB like RDS anyway ahh well.
  - eXpl0it3r 2y ago
    I'm running my own self-hosted n8n instance for basic automations, which has the added benefit that the OAuth and other credentials remain on my hardware rather than, somewhere in the cloud.
    - hirako2000 2y ago
      I do that too, strangely it isn't a tool many people know about. Knowing how to code though is what makes me value that thing, time saver yet can be as powerful as an app built from the ground up.

by ge96 2y ago

yakshaving_jgt 2y ago

Surely the next prompt would be > I pasted the code you gave me into my Wordpress and now when I refresh the page it’s just white. Why?

ge96 2y ago
"Is there a line break at the end of your file?" edit: I've seen this as a potential answer before

eXpl0it3r 2y ago

I can see something like Shortcuts/Zappier or some visual things to work quite well for non-programmers. After all, we've had lots of businesses using rule engines and visual editors to "program" their business logic for a long time. I just don't see "AI" spitting out code and people just putting it somewhere and it all working just fine, without having to learn some of the basics first. Maybe some highly integrated system could work, that does the doing for you, and users don't _have_ to deal with code and the tooling to run it. But those systems will again be quite limited, so questionable how "personal" it gets. One thing I've used "AI" for multiple times already with little to no modification, is to write some one-off script to automate some basic repetitive task (e.g. batch converting something with ffmpeg). Can you call this personal software?

ge96 2y ago
I think any code is software/for you = personal It is crazy what Zapier does. I learned Airtable's API myself and setting up the webhooks took me a bit where as it's just there for Zapier. Started to make me think which way is faster do it myself or use this bridge granted Zapier costs money but yeah. So funny how things go we wanted to use Airtable now they're like "we want our own branded Airtable" and eventually we'll probably just go with a hosted DB like RDS anyway ahh well.
- eXpl0it3r 2y ago
  I'm running my own self-hosted n8n instance for basic automations, which has the added benefit that the OAuth and other credentials remain on my hardware rather than, somewhere in the cloud.
  - hirako2000 2y ago
    I do that too, strangely it isn't a tool many people know about. Knowing how to code though is what makes me value that thing, time saver yet can be as powerful as an app built from the ground up.