I Made an AI News Editor-in-Chief Without Knowing How to Code

Now I get fresh story angles on current topics and headlines

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I am a person who, until recently, thought Python was just a type of snake. Yet, over eight hours this week, I used the giant snake’s programming language namesake to create an app. And not just any app. A bloody useful one! I built a writing prompt app that acts like the editor-in-chief of a major publication. It assesses and critiques current topics and headlines and spews out fresh story angles, ready for hungry journalists to gobble up like free donuts at a press conference.

Sit back and grab a beverage of choice. I’m about to spill the tea on my coding adventure — complete with technicolor commentary and a splash of creative license to keep it spicy for y’all.

Co-code: The dawn of a new era

I know, "The Dawn of a New Era” is probably too much. I don’t want to become one of the AI bros plaguing my Twitter feed right now. You know the ones: “What an insane day in the world of AI: ChatGPT is falling behind, here are 10 other AI tools to change your life…”. I’ll tone it down, I promise.

But I also don’t want you to get me wrong. I’m not talking about building an app in some easy-peasy low-code or no-code service— those…