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What AI can do with a toolbox: Getting started with Code Interpreter

Ethan Mollick · oneusefulthing.org

The Wharton professor's original field report on why an AI that writes its own code beats memorizing formulas.

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The question it answers

  1. Why let AI analyze my data instead of learning Excel formulas or SQL?

Read with it

  1. Shows AI restructuring messy PDF data and running models unprompted, the exact grunt work founders dread. x.com Thread Ethan Mollick on Code Interpreter's statistical common sense Ethan Mollick
  2. Mollick's line that things that took weeks in his PhD were done in seconds, with fewer errors than a human analyst. fortune.com Article Code Interpreter might be the most useful application of AI so far Fortune
  3. Video How AI Completely Reshaped This Data Analyst's Job (Luke Barousse) Ken's Nearest Neighbors Podcast
  4. Two practitioners compare the tasks worth delegating to AI versus the ones worth learning yourself. creators.spotify.com Podcast How We Use AI as Data Analysts (Data Career Podcast ep 76) Data Career Podcast with Luke Barousse
  5. The balanced case for how much SQL a non-analyst actually needs now that AI writes queries. mavenanalytics.io Article Do You Still Need to Learn SQL in the Age of AI? Maven Analytics
  6. A veteran SQL author argues the skill shifts from writing queries to judging them. sqlpatterns.com Article Should you still learn SQL (in the age of LLMs)? Ergest Xheblati (Data Wise)
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