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What do you want it to do?
There's a lot of automation program that works rather easily. But it's more about the program you choose.
Sounds like you have some computer knowledge. So next thing you should do is look up what ever you want to do and then see if there's some automation already at play.
If you want something for lemmy, start looking through these and good luck.
The part that s throwing me off is
Because if you want a bot to tackle a very specific problem, you'll most likely have to dig through documentation to understand how. But that's about as technical as it gets as well. And the knowledge listed is about the foundation everyone else has that is building small scale bots for narrow use cases from what I know.
Yeah, most people don't realize programming is just reading websites/documents and trying to figure out how to fit piece A to piece B.
I mean there's some programs where there's no real APIs, but for the most part it's mostly "Get X to do Y" I do networking code for a router and a decent chunk of what I REALLY do in code is configuring stuff based on how our device is configured... or configuring stuff that configures stuff.
Thank you for the link. It’s helped me grasp some things I found vague in my understanding.
As a follow up, you might want to start with a discord bot if you're curious. We have a slack bot at work that's pretty useful. But again it depends what your goal is or what you want to do. Programming is fun and working with simple bots is probably the easiest and most interesting stuff to do... until it doesn't work.
Oh and use ChatGPT to ask questions, I've found it extremely helpful even when I'm doing really hard programming tasks, especially because how you phrase the question helps your brain start working on the problem.