My Experience Automating Company Work with AI (Excel Grunt Work Edition)

Every Monday, I had to receive raw data and manually organize it. I gradually asked GPT to write code to automate just this one task. I didn't know any Python, but it took 3 weeks and I got it working.

To cut to the chase, I saved 6 hours a week. At first, the code kept throwing errors and I almost gave up, but when I copied and pasted the entire error message and asked, it got fixed.

Things to watch out for:

• Don't paste company data as-is (security)
• Even AI-written code must be run yourself and the results verified
• Don't use code you can't explain

Next, I'm thinking of attaching a scheduler to it and making it run fully automatically.