As much as I’ve griped about AI, my griping has way more to do with the super-expensive (well, until recently) valuations than the technology itself. I use Grok (where my beloved son was one of their earliest employees) pretty regularly, and I wanted to share a very simple example of how I use it.
There’s a newsletter from Substack called The Bear Cave which, you will not be surprised to know, I find interesting. There’s a problem, though. It’s a total wall of text. Page after page after page of commentary and musings. I don’t want to read all that stuff. I just want to look at charts, of which they published none.
So I explain the situation to Grok.
It tells me to go ahead, so I paste the insane wall of text and all the other junk in, and shortly thereafter, voila…………..
I refine the request a bit.
Then I finally get what I want.
At that point, I just save the text into Notepad, import it into SlopeCharts, and I’m good to go!
To be fair, having gone through the list, I only found one chart worth looking at (below), but still, it beats the hell out of spending half an hour reading something I don’t really want to read and punching in the symbols one by one.
All of which makes me wonder if I should integrate simple tools into Slope to make stuff like this more seamless for users here.
