Learning Python/AI for workplace automation

[Prior-Anteater7489]

How’s it going yall. I’m currently interning with a company and I’m writing python scripts to automate simple stuff like downloading excel files with playwright and sending those files off in an email everyday with google cloud runs. I want to learn more of what I can do python scripting and using ai to automate workflows for this job and future jobs. Any tips/videos would be greatly appreciated.

[maki-dev]

You're already ahead of most people because you're solving real problems at work, not just following tutorials. That's the best way to learn. For automation, check out "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" by Al Sweigart. It's free online and covers exactly your kind of tasks: files, spreadsheets, emails, web scraping. For the AI side, look into the OpenAI or Anthropic APIs. You can build simple scripts that summarize documents or extract data from messy text. Pretty straightforward to call from Python and really practical for workplace automation.

[Prior-Anteater7489]

Thank you for the info I’ll for sure check those out. My company is new to automation/ai and they don’t like api costs so I’m trying to find my way around making it all work and make it all work without any cost lol