AI & I

Great insights Wes! 

AI has for sure become a big partner in my Quickbase work. A few ways I use AI right now are: 

Creating formulas - I use ChatGPT to create quick formulas speeding up the initial create time. I always have to be careful with this, though, because it gets the syntax wrong a significant amount of times (~50% if I had to guess). 

Code pages - I'm newer to code pages so ChatGPT has been a huge help when deciphering existing pages that I didn't make, helping me make updates to them, and a few times I've used it to streamline lengthy ones...which would have been a huge challenge for me on my own at my current skill level.

Formula Rich Text Fields - probably one of the most used ways I leverage AI. ChatGPT excels at generating the HTML for buttons and user messages. It even does a decent job incorporating the logic rules I have in those fields (again staying cautious because of the syntax errors).

Jinja in Pipelines - Unless it's a simple Jinja statement, I almost always use ChatGPT to help write them. This use has been cool because it introduced ways of using Jinja that I hadn't thought of before. Like most other areas I have to be vigilant because it likes to use Jinja features that aren't available in Quickbase Pipelines so I have to go back and forth sometimes to get it right.

Even though it costs me time with syntax corrections I think it's been a positive net gain in productivity overall