Created An App And Other AI Uses This Week

I have been using AI for more than a year. Like most, I did not touch ChatGPT for the first six months or so and I only tired it because I was bored at the time. I still remember what I was doing that day and decided to give it a try while at work. 

It took a few more weeks for me to give it another go. And then the days between uses became shorter and shorter until now when I use it daily. 

The most exciting thing I did this week was to create an app via Claude AI - it was a simple Swift app that I wanted to work - a list generator. Then I used Gemini to help me get started with Pandas and create a simple neuron (I know there is a bias) looks like and what it does.

For a few hours of prompting and learning to run these codes, I would say I knew about ten times more about data analysis and AI than when I first started. Which means nothing really because I knew nothing about this from at the start of it all.

Here are other uses this week:

• I asked about what my credit score means.
• I asked for other coupon codes that are available for savings whenever the Dodgers win. In LA at least, you can get a free Whopper with the purchase of a large drink after a Dodgers Win. Panda Express as well. It is still early in the season but I think I’ve had more two-items plates in 2025 than all of 2024.
• I asked what a magnetar is. And with a magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than those on Earth, you do not want to go near one. So yeah, shields up!
• Most people are not aware of Liberation Day and Trump’s “beautiful” reciprocal tariffs. I am in favor of reshoring certain manufacturing. Chips, computers, and other critical electronics. Items that are vital to national security. But do we need even one sock factory? 
• On a related note, I ask Gemini to explain to me what the bond market is and its purpose.
• We had an online hobby of selling products but with the tariffs, we decided we do not want to do that anymore and solicited suggestions on possible pivots for our online business. 
• My nephew is going to college and we have decided to get him a new laptop. Gemini and Copilot were helpful in provide specs and models that will help him get through college - 4K video editing, coding, machine learning, and, of course, gaming.
• Learning Japanese - I write a short passage or two each day in Japanese and while translation apps a re fine, they do not come close to what AI is able to help me with. Claude was very helpful with explanation of what a native Japanese person would say. And that is what I want. Unfortunately, I ran out of the free allotment really so I switched to Gemini when that happens. I also do cross checks in just case given that they still hallucinate or misunderstand what I ask of it. 
• Most of Apple V. Masimo’s case over blood oxygen monitor is more than a year old and I really want that feature back. Co-PIlot and Gemini provided some information about the appeal process initiated by Apple. It usually takes a year so perhaps we are weeks from an answer. 
• Use ChatGPT to create a few Ghibili style artwork with my photos. It made my dog just so darn cute and my wife looking far younger and me like her grandfather.

I also used ChatGPT and Gemini as a sounding board for some ideas on a “hobby” my wife and I have been working on the last few years. It’s a business and we decided to continue the hobby but pivot to something that involves content generation with the help with AI. 

We plan on spending more time on it this weekend and I cannot be more excited.