Artificial Intelligence (AI), what do you think of it? How much influence does it have on your daily life? Personal or professional.
For me, it has become an inevitable part, whether it be in the professional workflow or to ease some of my personal difficulties, referring to tech related stuff.
The impact of AI/ML in our daily workflow is beyond imagination. If you're not utilising the potential of it as a help in your workflow then you are surely missing out a lot for sure, slowing down things. Everywhere I see, get to see the implementation and the results are amazing.
Yesterday, something poked through my mind. About a service, that I have credentials to get into and I need to do a few repetitive tasks from the gui. So it bugs me logging in, finding the correct option, and making the operation. Few of the tasks from the gui had to make a series of actions, and I wasn't happy with that. Also, the loading screen while making those operations bugs me a lot.
Thought of a shortcut. Wrote a bash script, even more in detailed things but organised. The whole thing I did was ready within fifteen minutes by the help of AI, specifically Claude Sonnet 4 model from Anthropic. I had basic knowledge over bash script as my first scripting language model Can you spot the number of lines it did code for me? 286!! Obviously there are formatting lines as well that took more than the expected lines but still, you can't always write so many lines of code on the fly if you aren’t a pro already. Now from the terminal, i just need to run the command, pass the arguments and boom! All are done behind the scenes, with the 286 lines of code. One command from here participates multiple depending on the result with the help of created noise.
If we think of it like this, the previous process used to take a cut from our precious time, little by little. Now with a few rounds of trial and error, finally a fix that goes through idea meeting guidelines that makes things easier. Was it possible to do it manually? Yes but it used to be time consuming, and the lack of proper guidance would have been stressful.
As I have always told, the good side and bad one depends on us and which side we will be extracting. If you aren’t making proper utilisation, then you gotta lose big on this, pretty big. I'm not plagiarizing, selling it directly by my name. I'm just making things a little bit easier, saving time or gathering knowledge when needed. Even in my workflows, treat AI/ML models as one of my talented friends who knows everything and is always ready to help me out. All I just need is to ask the questions as clearly as possible for better understanding and answers based on that.
So yeah, don't just run away nor just throw it in a corner. Make the best use out of it and yeah, don't forget to validate things before making sensitive actions with them, sometimes they do hallucinates a lot and answers are wrong as well due to the lack of proper context understanding or limitation.