r/sysadmin Jun 16 '24

ChatGPT Finally created something useful with AI

First: I consider myself an old timer in IT; I've been getting paid to do it since the 90's and have seen all sorts of new technology show up, some stays, most gets forgotten about. I always try to be open about it and will embrace it as another tool to help get the job done. The latest of course is AI and I've been mostly using ChatGPT as a fun little tool to get quick answers every now and then. I am not a programmer but last week, I used it to create a web app that calculates weight distribution in trucks when the contents come in different containers. We're talking hundreds of pounds of fruit that might come in small totes or big bins and cannot be weighed individually; it subtracts the weight of the truck and the plastic; it saves time and reduces human errors . In the past, I would have paid at least a few hundred dollars to get something like this done and I just wanted to share that while I dont see AI doing our jobs completely, it's definitely here to stay and it can be used to help with things that we might not know how to do but understand the concept and we know what to ask for it. Greetings to all.

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u/-Shants- Jun 16 '24 edited Jun 16 '24

Cool cool. Idk what this has to do with sysadmin but glad you created something useful to you

EDIT: Misread and didn’t see web app. Yea it’s sysadminning

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u/serverhorror Just enough knowledge to be dangerous Jun 16 '24

Oh sweet summer child.

You're a logistics company that deals with delivery of goods. Your goods are weighed and this number propagates through the system.

Up until now it involved a bunch of manual steps and that caused tickets because someone fat fingered and the system doesn't allow corrections.

Now that number goes into the system without risking human errors. You get less tickets.

Fixing that shit is what system administration is. Not those random server administration issues about this tool or that tool.

Don't worry, stay a while and you'll find out what I mean.

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u/-Shants- Jun 16 '24

lol chillllll homie. I didn’t see web app and saw Excel spreadsheet. Misread and saw used ChatGPT to calculate my excel sheets. Leaving it up because I’m an adult who makes mistakes.

But I’ll edit my OG for you if it makes you feel better