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I use Todoist and I like it for repeating tasks:

  * A list of daily tasks small and quick too many to remember 
  * Tasks to do or check every three or four days ie about twice a week
  * Tasks to do about once a week eg hoovering.
  * Tasks to do every three months like wash house windows etc
Most days I put my todo list into ChatGPT and get it to put my todo list in order from quickest to longest.

Sometimes I ask ChatGPT to order my todo list by importance.

Interesting. But Chesterton's Fence assumes we can always find out why something was put there, but often we can't, which makes adding barriers easier than removing them—leading to a buildup of unnecessary rules over time?

But is a programmer who uses AI to program the same as

  a Typescript programmer who doesn't understand JavaScript well? 
  Or a Python programmer who doesn't know C?
  Or a C programmer who doesn't know assembly code?
  Or an assembly coder who doesn't make his own PCBs?
Is AI orchestration just adding another layer of abstraction to the top of the programming stack?

A way to think about it is, if you went into the liars house to prove him wrong, you could find one non-green hat to prove him wrong. If he has no hats you wouldn't be able to prove him wrong.

Which reminds me of a quote from the British TV series Yes Minister: "A good speech isn't one where we can prove he's telling the truth. It's one in which nobody else can prove he's lying!"