I want to better utilize AI tools in my day-to-day work. I suspect there is much more I can be doing and using Emacs as building material to make it work for me.
What can I do with AI and Emacs?
Writing prose
- Rewrite and replace region to fix spelling and grammar but preserving as much of the original prose as possible
- Ask questions about the current document context
- Make a flow chart from the text (maybe graphviz?)
- Summarize a doc or region
- Rewrite and replace text for clarity
- Retry the last prompt to iterate on different instructions
- Select text, write custom instruction, send
- Create pre-canned prompts I use frequently (e.g. fix this grammar, make it shorter, etc.)
- Dispatch to org-ai on the section or file prompting for other things I’ve written which might be related
- Summarize a link
Writing code
- Write function from a comment and fill in the rest
- Debug section of code known to be wrong
- Fix badly formatted code
- Refactor a complicated function
- Generate a test from the function or module
- Write bash script for command line
- Ask question of log output or data from a SQL query
Management
- Construct follow up messages for delegated tasks in org-agenda for work that are not complete yet
- Write the basic outline of an investor update from updated information
- Write a weekly summary and priorities for the team
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Embark for Emacs seems like a useful way to further customize Emacs actions (
M-x). I still don’t understand why I would want to use it, so this note is an exploration to try it out and see if it’s useful.