Patrick - I felt that I had to write this ...
None of it is written by Artificial Intelligence, or shall I say Synthetic Intelligence (I don’t think human will be able to produce anything non-human that will born a human in return; that would then really be passing an Artificial Intelligence test; watch Colossus: The Forbin Project from 1970) other than Visual Studio code making auto completes (would that be categorized as AI capabilities now days?). I can explain each and every line (including empty ones!). DM me (my email is readily available here if privacy is needed) and I will provide you with my mobile number to set up amicable time if you would like to take up on offer of understanding line-by-line. As others have defended, two of three scripts were direct response to trying to solve a very specific problem that was an ask, and is within the confines of GNC functionality; nothing outside. IMHO, also the third one did as well for someone who may be bashful to ask here. The third one was a trivial strap-on for me so knocked it out in about an 30 mins and posted for everyone's benefit. I've been contributing here since 2020 in many ways, including code to F::Q, help with OS related queries, and many other topics, and having a public GitHub repo at https://github.com/ka-patel/ to share things out as well. I've programmed in many languages -- started with programming Commodore BASIC in early 80's to now days programming AI (yes, AI is nothing more than just another programming language with prompts! Not sure why folks even ask AI to write code when it in itself can take input and output directly 😊), but never asked for anything hard in return. AI is here as a new technology, just like Internet once was. You can either embrace it or fight it. You pick. At the end of the day, you, me and everyone else as a sentient being has to decide what is beneficial and what is detrimental for one's self, and that judgement can never be substituted by anything. I am quite aware of hallucinations, biases and indifference that AI can output so I decide how to use it. At the end of the day, it can be used either way -- good use or misuse -- but that understanding is in the eyes of the beholder how s/he sees it. GNC has empowered me through help of its dedicated folks in many ways here in the user forum -- fully free and willingly -- and, IMHO, I am returning that favor in-kind; nothing more or nothing less. I am blessed with knowledge in certain areas and just instilling it away to those that are willing to take it in. Ultimately, this is all about one user helping another in an open forum -- fully free and willingly, without any animosity. It has disclaimer of "not thoroughly tested" because it truly is not thoroughly tested -- being really open and honest upfront. For someone to truly remove that disclaimer, one would have to wait for eternity to get it so that testing can exercise each and every logic, each and every enumeration, each and every permutation with known valid and invalid inputs, and known valid and invalid outputs. -----Original Message----- From: Patrick James <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2026 6:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GNC] Trading accounts Kalpesh, What amount of these Python scripts are written by you? If asked, could you explain each line? Also do all these messages about all of these scripts meet the new outside helper program policy? The scripts themselves don't appear to have nefarious intent, but I do question the need to keep posting various Python scripts in this forum, especially in the light of the current helper program policy. Additionally, since there are so many, it could be that someone misuses them. I'm all about helping people, and I'm all about helpful Python scripts, but as a subscriber to this list, I'm losing the narrative of what's going on with all of this, including this latest "not thoroughly tested" Python script. > On 08/13/2026 3:15 PM PDT Kalpesh Patel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Not thoroughly tested but here is the one with even more capabilities … > Python v3.x with yfinance, lxml, logging, and gzip libraries will be needed > to work which will create prices.csv in current directory. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
