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Module 4 Pro9 min read

Project: the meeting note summariser

Connecting a script to an AI API to turn raw notes into actions.

This project connects the two halves of the course. Module 2 made you good at talking to AI through a chat window. Module 3 made you able to write scripts. Put them together and something new appears: a script that talks to an AI — no chat window, no copying and pasting, the same careful prompt applied to every file in a folder automatically.

Our target: raw, rambling meeting notes in, a tidy summary with action items out.

The door for programs

Remember the restaurant from Module 1? An API is the menu — the fixed set of requests one program will accept from another. It turns out the big AI assistants (the ChatGPT family, Claude, Gemini) all have exactly such a menu. The chat window is the door for humans; the API is the door for programs. Same models behind both doors.

Why bother, when the chat window works fine? Because a chat window is for one-off questions, and a script is for every time. Summarising one meeting by hand-pasting is fine. Summarising every meeting, every week, in exactly the same format, without you remembering to do it — that is a loop's job.

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