I use GnuCash for my small business. I am not a programmer, but know enough to be dangerous. My use for AI was to have it write a small python script that will take my bank csv and set accounts properly based on how I have categorized them in GnuCash in the past, it spits out a clean csv to import into GnuCash. Now I can see exactly what the matches are, and the whole thing runs on my local computer. No worries about hallucination of new account names.

The python script is basic enough that even I can figure out what it is doing, and I still have to review the import to GnuCash and reconcile with my bank.

It is saving me about an hour of work every week right now.

I think this is my biggest use of AI - making small tools to do the work locally rather than sending things to the cloud to be stolen and messed with.

I used to work for a company with about 1200 gas station/convenience stores. They tracked "Light product break even". Basically the profit to earn on fuel to make the store break even. It was like 2 cents per gallon most of the time. So they could be super competitive on fuel and still be profitable. It was pretty crazy to see that.

And it was Swifty - definitely a no frills experiences!

Admiral Cloudberg has a great writeup about this. I instantly thought of LA when I saw the headlines about the LaGuardia collision.

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/cleared-to-collide-the-c...

My daily use software updates almost daily (web based app) They post almost no release notes. Update breaks your daily work flow, too bad. update completely changes the customer experience? Maybe a blog post at the end of the month. Release a new feature that nobody asked for: public change log entry with fanfare!

I would love every professional software to have a full release note for each update, as well as options to not have your web app update until you are ready for the changes to your flow.