How AI Helped Me Discover Automation

Short summary

A personal account of discovering automation through AI-assisted Google Apps Script development. The author learned to automate spreadsheet-based email workflows by providing AI with increasingly specific prompts, and developed a trigger-condition-action mental model for identifying automatable tasks. The article stresses that AI-generated code requires understanding, testing, and human judgment.

• •Author automated Google Sheets email workflows using AI-generated Apps Script
• •Developed a trigger-condition-action framework for thinking about automation
• •Emphasizes testing, edge-case handling, and not automating tasks requiring human judgment

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