Postage increase 2025

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Postage increase 2025

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The postage prices have just been updated to reflect the current Royal mail new prices. Overall seems to be varying between 50p and £2 depending how far they go I suppose.

I really need to get a script done to do this automatically as its a PITA to keep updating it!
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exxos wrote: 11 Apr 2025 16:10 The postage prices have just been updated to reflect the current Royal mail new prices. Overall seems to be varying between 50p and £2 depending how far they go I suppose.

I really need to get a script done to do this automatically as its a PITA to keep updating it!
I think you secretly enjoy creating these scripts with AI help @exxos ;)
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JezC wrote: 11 Apr 2025 16:19 I think you secretly enjoy creating these scripts with AI help @exxos ;)
:D Work smarter, not harder ;) I've got scripts for loads of stuff now. Postage is a bit tricky to do since it starts from PDF and the layout is a bit "anyhow".
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How awesome is this! :lol: I'm now coding in Python apparently :lol:

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Just need some patches to convert all the results over to my database now... Then I can "one click" update my postage prices every few months when the prices change :D :D
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Was a bit more problematical to setup than I thought :lol:

It also illustrated there was actually six errors in my database after getting Grok to verify everything.. :lol: :roll:

A example that we all match now :)

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I need to add a switch so it can actually make the changes to the database, the annoying thing about all this, as I already manually updated the database, so I will have to wait until Royal mail change their prices again before I can actually use and test the script properly :lol: :roll: :pullhair: :headbang:
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ohhh actually, I can just deliberately mess up one of the postage costs in the database to try the script out fully...

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What script can I do next ... :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited:


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Great stuff. :thumbup:

Out of curiosity, what AI system do you use for this?

My missus uses ChatGPT at work, but its more useful for basic boilerplate stuff.
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mrbombermillzy wrote: 11 Apr 2025 20:12 Out of curiosity, what AI system do you use for this?

My missus uses ChatGPT at work, but its more useful for basic boilerplate stuff.
Grok.

GPT4 has been great for lots of stuff. But their dedicated code model seems to be getting worse somehow. It loses the plot on more complex code. Grok deals with a lot of stuff a whole lot better. It wrote my assembly code hello world example a couple weeks back. GPT hadn't a clue.

If we could just load everything Atari related into grok..... Not sure on its 68k limits but probably a lot less than more general stuff like PHP etc.. I'm sure it could finish up my GB6 assembly code at least..
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Interesting.

Will have to check that out.

Thanks. :)

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