Software as a Favour (SaaF)

Back to doing other things I built my mom some software while I made dinner, because building someone an app is now a favour you can do. Is this a superpower, or does it foreshadow a day when code is just another tool? Building an interactive graph database. My mom asked me for a favour.She wondered if there was a way for her to examine hundreds of pages of documents for a few specific words. The documents came from a dozen people. There were photos. There was text. There were photos of text. Some of the files were very old; many of the senders were, too. There were, dear reader, Wordperfect documents.This is not a simple thing, even for an AI. You can't just drag a giant .zip file into a chatbot and get smart answers.

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