clevercli VS datasette-paste-table

Mostly just asking stuff directly on https://chat.openai.com/chat. Last 5 requests (all successful) were:

- Asked about an idiom I forgot about by saying it in other words.

- Asked it to dumb down some things about options (finance) I didn't understand.

- Asked it if I could use the eBay API to list my purchase history.

- Asked it to generate pretty standard Terms of Service for an app I'm working on.

- Asked it to build a moderately complex Prisma (ORM) query that I described in natural language.

Also, occasionally ask about shell commands using a CLI I wrote[0].

[0] https://github.com/clevercli/clevercli

FWIW I made a CLI utility that does this, it saves some typing / copy-pasting. Only made one for Rust and TypeScript now but more languages can be easily added: https://github.com/clevercli/clevercli#built-in-prompts

I often use it as a thesaurus. "Words that mean X" or even "that situation X me and I was annoyed - give me options for X"

For programming, all sorts of things. I use it all the time for programming languages that I'm not fluent in, like AppleScript or bash/zsh/jq. One recent example: https://til.simonwillison.net/gpt3/chatgpt-applescript

I use it as a rapid prototyping tool. I got it to build me a textarea I could paste TSV values into to preview that data as a table recently, one prompt produced exactly the prototype I wanted: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-paste-table/issues/1

I use it for brainstorming. "Give me 40 ideas for Datasette plugins involving AI" - asking for 40 ideas means that even if the first ten are generic and obvious there will be some interesting ones further down the list.

I used it to generate an OpenAPI schema when I wrote my first ChatGPT plugin, see prompt in https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/24/datasette-chatgpt-plug...