I spent today working with AI to improve some bash scripts I use each year for extra life. It was super productive because I got to do exactly what I wanted and was able to improve some basic things in a way that made sense to me because it built off of what I knew and made last year. It was great, and it explained why things I was doing were not as good because of spawning extra processes or backing up some changes so if the script fails it returns my back to the beginning. It also let me combine a few scripts. I can imagine that someone who is even half decent at programming could make some really neat things with AI assistance.

I used Google Gemini and it was free. I could have learned it all on my own, but I have a lot going on in my life and this worked well.