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4 curated public examples in Everyday work

Curated public exampleNotebook

Everyday work

Compare audio and visuals before summarizing video

OpenAI’s notebook processes a real DevDay recap into frames and audio, then prints summaries and answers from visual input, audio-derived text, and both together. The differing outputs make missing context visible.

Published byOpenAI Cookbook / Juston Forte

Curated public exampleNotebook

Everyday work

Control summary detail without confusing length and quality

OpenAI summarizes a Wikipedia article about artificial intelligence using different chunk counts and a detail parameter. The notebook prints summaries and their lengths, including a recursive variant that supplies earlier summaries as context.

Published byOpenAI Cookbook

Curated public exampleWorkflow

Everyday work

Overlay extracted coordinates to find hidden errors

Willison published bounding-box outputs and visual tools for locating objects in images. When boxes appeared rotated, he investigated image orientation metadata, tested a different image representation, and documented a preprocessing fix.

Published bySimon Willison

Curated public exampleWorkflow

Everyday work

Specify how a small tool should accept your input

Willison describes creating a QR decoder when he lacked his phone during a meeting. The linked conversation shows an initial URL-based implementation followed by a request for file selection, drag-and-drop and pasted images.

Published bySimon Willison

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