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15 minutes with AI turned an unreadable XML dump into a tool I can reuse

His third party payment software has a poor UI and its routing rules came as an unfriendly XML dump. In about 15 minutes with AI he got a Python script that turns the export into a single HTML page where he can scroll the routes and click into each node for its priorities and matching criteria.

How it works

  1. Exports the routing rules as XML
  2. The AI builds a Python script in about 15 minutes
  3. The script turns the XML into a self contained HTML page he can click through

Why it’s worth knowing

A tool he says would have taken a day or two, and that he would never have bothered to build, now exists for the next time the problem comes up.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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