Hi folks. After getting some scripting guidance from @rdswift and @aerozol the other day, I wondered if ChatGPT (which I very rarely use) would be fluent in Picard’s scripting language (since I’ve heard ChatGPT is good with coding in general).
Turns out it didn’t take much instruction at all to get it offering improvements, as well as explaining (with enough detail or an example) what a particular line of code was doing.
I just have the basic free MacOS app.
Proof that I’m slowly figuring things out is that I identified a little gap that might have caused problems… and ChatGPT (very politely of course) said “oh yeah, you’re right, so let’s make this change then”. 
So that’s something for those with ChatGPT to explore. Plus, I bet some of you vets would have fun “stumping the computer”. 
For reference this was my very first prompt, which of course I then followed up with my script:
I will give you a MusicBrainz Picard file naming script. I’d like you to help me understand what it does by explaining how the script works in English.
It then broke things down line by line for me, and kept that script in memory so I could follow up with “ok so what if I want to do this, or add that” type questions.
So it would seem to parse the manual in an instant and be able to apply that information in a useful way. It can miss some oddball human use cases… but it can at least react and adapt to that.
Yes, actually it is surprisingly good with it. I tried that a year ago or such. Given how little information there is available about Picard scripting online the results really surprised me.
I’m ok with it eventually questioning my musical taste, but if it gets too pushy on how it thinks my stuff should be organized… that’s another matter. 
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