I think you will see a lot more of this type of thing in the future because of AI.
For the last few weeks, I’ve been playing around with Anthropic’s Claude Code product, I started out with the web based free product and quickly moved up to the Pro Level for a 1-year subscription for $17/month.
The side hustles and things you can independently do with this product are fairly amazing, even if you have never written a line of computer code in your life.
I was in the IT business for 38 years and consider myself technically literate, the last code I wrote was Cobol, I’ve never written Python code in my life. I also consider myself an intermediate to advanced user of Microsoft Excel.
Just in the past 2-3 days working part time, I’ve had Claude AI create multiple Excel Spreadsheets complete with Python Scripts to go out on the web, pull down information and update the models build the spreadsheets and write detailed documentation on how the models work.
I also had the product go out and gather information on another model I want to work on and write a Word Document on the subject and what I need to consider in developing the model.
You take a young person who generally are more technically savvy than a retired baby boomer like myself who has any creativity in them, could do wonders for very little money and create their own business using the Claude AI tools or any other AI models from other companies.
I did something similar. I gave all my stocks, mutual funds, 401(k) and everything and they put it into a spreadsheet with my net worth for the day. It used Friday is close to add everything up. It took about four minutes at most. I think AI is great. I’m sad that so many are poo pooing it.
I was at an estate sale recently and there was a room full of 100s of NFL collectables. Rather than look up individual items, I took several photos with my phone and uploaded them to AI with instructions to identify the items and rank them by value.
AI did a pretty good job with the task, including a lot of detail about condition and markings to look for, and this was using the free AI version on the phone.