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Re:Burnout because of ChatGPT? by skepticATX on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @09:41AM (#37133897)
I Googled "applescript loop through apple notes" and this was the first result: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/225938/notes-scrip.... Looks exactly like what ChatGPT came up with for you minus the dialog.

I then Googled "applescript print to console" and got this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13653358/how-to-log-obje... ; admittedly this answer took a few minutes to read through, but the second most upvoted answer recommended using log, which your ChatGPT-developed solution (eventually) used.

This all took me < 5 minutes.

Re:Burnout because of ChatGPT? by simonw on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @09:54AM (#37134041)
Yeah, those StackOverflow posts are the perfect illustration of why I find ChatGPT so much useful for this kind of thing.

Compare them to my original transcript. They don't provide me with enough information: how do I actually run that code?

I got ChatGPT to split me out a zsh script, which caused it to show me how to use "osascript -e ".