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So, you needed a multiple step process of technology transfer to an ai or an app to figure out how to split the check?

I find this fascinating but not terribly impressive. Its fascinating that such a rudimentary skill prompted you to dive down this rabbit hole. The unimpressive part is that it's a rudimentary skill yet your over engineered solution still only required rudimentary skills.

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It was more of a fun exercise, and an excuse to play with some cool tech! The part I was most impressed with was that ChatGPT could make sense of the mashed-up OCR text from the receipt—I can see that being super handy for speeding up expense reporting data entry. Everything else was extra.

It's not, like, a practical way to solve problems, but it's interesting in its own right.

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