Comment by theshrike79

A friend of mine dabbled in programming when they were younger, but ended up as a writer.

A few months ago they finally got annoyed enough about the janky manual way they need to get the dialog and scripts to a specific format and just went with the basic ChatGPT copy+paste route.

Within a weekend they had a full web UI that automated a good 50% of the manual work.

With a few nudges from yours truly they graduated into agentic coding and now we're at around 90-95% automation of the manual stuff + massive improvements in the actual writing process (proper previews, the system can "guess" what the layout is suposed to be), it can export to multiple formats required by different vendors etc.

All done by a copywriter with a programmer's mindset (the need to automate) and an LLM.