This is so neat! I really think AI turbocharges this kind of personal project way more than it speeds up programming for work:

> I was curious about the possibility of doing this myself, and I asked ChatGPT. Not surprisingly, it knew a lot of the various tapes, file formats, sizes, processing, storage, and after it asked some clarifying questions, it was quite optimistic about me being able to do this myself

Between this, it seems like it helped with so many different parts of the process:

1. Asking for how to do technical things, like transfer video from these old VHS to a newer computer.

2. Writing code for the web portal to host the videos.

3. Writing VLC plugins to help with data entry.

4. Transcribe audio into text.

Similarly, a coworker recently made a website that imitates what Alpha School does to incentivize his own kids to finish their homework all in the span of a weekend, and it's cool to think of the kinds of projects that less or minimally technical people can do with the help of ChatGPT to guide them.

Of course, the debugging techniques and the debugging and problem-solving techniques that you get from being a professional programmer helps a lot with taking what LLMs give you with a grain of salt, and knowing what they're good at and what they're not. But it is a superpower for sure.

I'd love to see the imitation of alphaschool . I would work on my own , and i'd love the inspiration . Any chance you can share ?

> Of course, the debugging techniques and the debugging and problem-solving techniques that you get from being a professional programmer helps a lot with taking what LLMs give you with a grain of salt, and knowing what they're good at and what they're not. But it is a superpower for sure.

I'm really coming around to the idea for the lucky of us (and I'm assuming a lot about the average HN poster) AI really is a force-multiplying tool

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