One of my hobbyist workflows involved transcribing ETF prospecti into yaml for an optimizer to optimize over.

Used to take me maybe 10-20 minutes per sheet.

Then I got codex to whip up a script that sends each sheet to a fairly low parameter locally running LLM and I have the yaml in a couple seconds.

My dream is to bootstrap myself to local productivity with providers… I know I’ll never get there because hedonic treadmill etc, but I do feel there’s lots more juice to squeeze. I just need to invest more time into AI engineering…