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Sorry, replying to own post but I have to add this.

Actions were not working on the android app. Known issue for a long time

https://community.openai.com/t/gpts-custom-api-calls-not-wor...

I did the same solution described above - Bookmarked the custom GPT, added to home screen and would run it in browser.

It seems to be working now. So I can start building out custom GPTs, share with my clients and not have a big training piece to onboard them.

Edit: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-697edc35e2888191a331217cd0483a67-men...

Take a pic of a menu and create a group meal/degustation for your budget.

I have been doing exactly this by bookmarking Codex and using 'Add to home screen'

Process (all on my phone)

* Create new repo on github

* Tell Chatgpt the project and ask for a readme and agents file

* Manual upload the files to github

* Go to Codex and tell it to review the code and carry out steps in readme

* Connect project to Vercel

* If needed, create a DB

* Ask ChatGPT for the schema and run the sql

I have done this kind of work for years and now I can create things like this on the way back from a meeting. It's broken my business model by the way.

Here is one of the apps, for mental health - pretty much all done on my phone.

https://you-are-ok.vercel.app/

So having Codex in app removes one little barrier and I will take that.

Yeah, I agree. If all transactions are reported and treated like a sale.

I just have personal experience where the person offering from one side often wants to avoid the tax. In Australia we have 10% GST/VAT. Pay someone and there is 30% payrol tax (even as a sole trader). Then 12% mandatory pension contribution.

So the $5000 website/landscaping turns into 3k cash in hand.

Enticing to avoid this if you can, but I am risk adverse - clients pay me off the back of this. It balances the risk appetite of a business owner who could cut corners, with me sayng not to. If they do, at least I made the risk clear.

But your point is valid and correct. There is nothing wrong with contra deals where it's booked properly.

In Australia these kind of deals are treated like income.

https://www.ato.gov.au/businesses-and-organisations/gst-exci...

I am sure people avoid the tax element this way, but it's not a sustainable way to go.

Let's say I do a website for $5,000 (putting aside that this a dead industry, and my career for the past 20 years) and the landscaper comes to do the work at my house.

If he cuts a powerline, falls down a hole or chops off his hand, we have a big insurance problem. No paperwork, no contract.

I have had friends who did their side of the contra deal and never got the other part of the bargain fulfilled.

Things like 'I'll paint your house if you can help fix up this old car of mine.'

I have turned down these deals in the past. Same as someone asking me to work for free for 'exposure'.

I am not having a go at the comment above as I think the point is valid - small business doing this is fraud, big business do it and it's fine.

Just my advice to anyone thinking it might work for them. Send the invoice, do the work, get paid in money.

That is not the title

That's also a trick

Edit: but look, it's a good one. A little bit of reality mixed in so it looks cool

https://instant.page/ does this via user intent/interactions and pre-fetches the next page.

"Another option is to load the pages when the user starts pressing their mouse without preloading. This makes for zero unused requests while still improving page loads by 80 ms on average."

That's the way I would go. Fast, but not wasteful.

Every website will suffer from this.

Fix is easy enough - check the http referer before showing a result. E.g in insites.io(or any liquid scripting site) you can check like this: {% assign is_internal_search = context.headers.HTTP_REFERER contains context.location.host %}

Just check the search is happening on a site or device you own. That attack vector is then gone (hackers cannot spoof the refer that google sends via ads.)

It is great!

I signed up on my phone and tested in the playground.

It will fit perfectly into my workflow. I'm building a hyper-local directory site.

Getting good images for businesses is hard, so I'll use this to grab an image of their site as a place holder.

I can also add it to my AI workflow where I pass a website to OpenAI Assistant to extract data. OpenAI s not as robust with URLs as it is with images or PDFs. Often it won't visit then URL.

I can use this to get an image or pdf, pass it on and ask for the data back. OpenAI is better with files than URLs in my experience.

Good job!

Well done!

Exactly this.

People will pay for micro tools if they solve a problem.

Need to extract just 'text' from a webspage? Need to convert iPhone sized images to web sized images? Need to send sms but not that often?

Connecting dots is a lot easier than building each step. I'll happily pay $ for a tool if I don't have to build and maintain the function.

I had an office conversation today. The person I talked with has said that 2025 is their year to make AI work for their business.

I expressed that I think it is good at somethings, and not so good at others.

They have tested it and feel AI agents are ready to handle low level enquiries for support and, most importantly, sales.

I looked for opinions on and found this article.

My opinion is that AI is great for structured work (based on structured data), but risky on creative work where customers are involved.

I'd be interested in hearing if I'm wrong and behind the latest developments. And what I should be looking at is this area.

Still down. Verizon was also down for an extended period.

No updates coming out either.

Logging passwords on the fly is probably common. Some debug or log action setup and forgotten.

However, if you ever see a password in plain text you should raise alarms to the highest level.

In this case, I don't think the alarm was raised.

Absolutely disagree with this description of the job a waiter does.

A waiter orchestrates and coordinates the experience for the diners they are looking after. They slow down orders to stop the kitchen getting overwhelmed. They upsell on the menu in a way that is helpful and informative. They understand the dietary requirements of guests. They hold complex orders in their head and drop the right plate to the right person. They know the flow of a table and engage or back off as appropriate.

Don't undervalue a role that can make a night out magical or a simple coffee memorable.

"Create a vast amount of engaging posts and reactions in just minutes"

Post AND reactions.

This is the progress we deserve.

AI posts with AI reactions.

Now it will be who has the biggest ad-spend to have their bilge seen by the human buyers. Social falling the way of Google search and SEO

Or they could be dates.

Context is key. Using LLMs has taught me I often assume everyone has the same context as me when I ask a question.

8 hrs a day 5 days a week 3 weeks 120 hours.

I would charge a minimum of $150 an hour so you are at $18k.

Most apps are just database record and forms to interact. They aren't complex.

The issue you may face is the expectation of the founder - especially if they are not technical. You will spend more time on requirements than on development.

"We need a map that shows the current location of an item plus it's status" needs to be in the next round of development. But they might not get that.

My neighbor is 82. Every time I complain about being middle aged she tells me I am young.

Its all relative.

(She also tells me of the time she met the Beatles in Melbourne and that her childhood house had no flushing toilet. A 'nightman' would come to take the waste away. And she's on Instagram)

We have this in Australia. Woolworths self-service checkout will show you pictures of what you have placed on the scales. Put an avocado and that will be first, then maybe a green apple or another green fresh produce product.

You still have to pick the right one, but it's normally the first one. It even does mushrooms as these are bagged in brown paper bags.

They make it easier by only having limited versions of a product. Normally only one choice of Avacado.

They also have facial recognition. There are also cameras filming you checkout and shown on a small screen.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/19/woolworths-...

(Edit: I think the Avacados still have stickers though)

And operating illegally.

I'm not a fan of how taxis in Australia are operated, but the law was there to prevent unapproved businesses to pick up passenger.

The law was ignored and it impacted real people who had owned taxi licence plates, sometimes for generations. At $350k a pop, it was an asset that came under attack.

Don't speak.

People fill voids and awkward situations by saying stuff, even if that stuff is wrong.

It's OK to be quiet. It's also OK to say 'Let me think about that'.

Lose some arguments.

And unless the situation you are in that requires a quick decision is life or death, it probably doesn't need one.

You can stop half way and recharge? That is amazing!

"..observing the sky or calculating formulas.."

I'm pretty sure that's science.

I get what you are saying.

With a technical audience, it is better to use actual terminology.

However the general public does not have the knowledge to understand these. These are the people using ChatGPT and for them it is AI. We can correct them, but it's likely they won't care.

Why call anything AI?

It's become commonly accepted to mean any algorithmic system. It's probably better to use an accepted umbrella term rather than multiple specific scientific ones in this case.

I'm a little lost here.

If you don't want a company to have your DNA, don't give it to them.

It seems like a business was built around people wanting to be told they had 20% more fun in their bloodline, for a fee. Those people didn't consider the implications of giving this kind of data to a private company. Now the company is saying, "we got the DNA you gave us, for a fee and we don't want to go to court to fight you about how we use it".

Just don't give them your DNA. It's not that hard.

In my retail experience, you would repeat your understanding of their needs and how your product is addressing them.

You can then ask them to confirm your understanding.

"As a digital creator, you've told me that it's time consuming to send invoices out. Using our software, you'll be able to do this much more easily.

Is that a fair summary of what we discussed or have I misunderstood something?"

It's what people said about Google!

We went from debating a topic to Googling the answer and resolving a whole night's debate in seconds.

And I will tell you that Google didn't always get it right. Often a tweak to the search term could get the wrong answer, but win the argument.

There are three topics banned at my table. Religion, politics, AI, Sam Altman, punctuation and maths.

Overall, I think this article is good.

I've been in the game a long time and there is not much here I would disagree with.

"Working in software engineering often means long working hours. Most of the time, you are glued to a computer screen, with little work-life balance."

For sure this is true. The younger you are, the easier it is to deal with and be amazingly productive. As you get older, life creeps back in and you get a bit of balance.

When you get to my age it becomes less about screentime and more about problem solving. Something I am very happy about.

As a career, it's 8 out of 10.

..."idealists"...

I wonder what the ideal was?