After 6 months or so of relying on a notes file with common starting URLs and manually hacking variants together, a sometimes fraught process, I realized I could have CoPilot generate a very simple start page url builder:
You can see the sanitized version of it in action here.
It's just funny - obviously not hard to pull off, like 5 minutes of LLM work, but no one on my team thought to do it, and it definitely improves all of our "quality of life"s.
LLMs like ChatGPT synergize really well with some of my graybeard tendencies from Web 1.0; the idea that simple programming feats can still be useful - you don't need to stand up a whole little server, static HTML and in browser JS can meet a bunch of tasks. I haven't yet messed with Claude or other specialty bots more geared at larger projects, but as a companion / second pair of eyes / Jr dev who might lose the thread but has a great memory for a lot of the details, ChatGPT and even the CoPilot I have at work are huge benefits.
Also it synergizes with how I can trivially deploy to my cheap rented VPS it doesn't matter in this case, it's just a local static .html file, but I wouldn't have to put down a credit card when I want to make something available to any browser.
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