Prompting GPT to Create Gantt Charts The Setting I Missed That Broke Everything Silently

Prompting GPT to Create Gantt Charts The Setting I Missed That Broke Everything Silently

So I was building a Gantt chart generator using GPT and Make (formerly Integromat), and everything was going great until, with no warning, the entire chart started populating with tasks that had the same start and end dates 🤷; Here’s what I wish someone had told me. It turns out, there’s a subtle but really…

Using GPT to write Git commit messages without making your teammates hate you

Using GPT to write Git commit messages without making your teammates hate you

If I had a dollar for every time I thought “this is clean and ready” and then realized the Git commit message made zero sense six months later… I’d have enough to buy yet another GPT-4 add-on token package. I’ve been using GPT to write commit messages for a while now — originally just dumping…

ChatGPT Prompts for Meeting Agendas That Avoid Useless Fluff

ChatGPT Prompts for Meeting Agendas That Avoid Useless Fluff

Let me set the scene. It’s 9:04 AM, you’re already behind, and you just opened yet another calendar event titled “Team Sync – Weekly Review” with a blank agenda and a mystery guest marked as ‘optional.’ The host copy-pasted a prompt into ChatGPT, got a generic agenda, and didn’t bother to clean it up. Instant…