The Problem: Too Much Dust on Old Photos, I need "Remove Duplicate Photos" cleaner Imagine sifting through tens of thousands of photos—manually. I mounted the NAS SMB partition on my MacBook, only to discover it was excruciatingly slow. After two days of copying files to my MacBook, my manual review session turned into a blur. My eyes hurt, my patience wore thin, and I knew there had to be a better way. When I turned to existing tools for "remove duplicate photo" task, I hit a wall. Most were paid, overly complex, or simply didn’t fit my needs. Even the so-called free solutions required learning arcane commands like find. I needed something powerful, flexible, and fast. And when all else fails, what’s a tech enthusiast to do? Write their own solution—with a "little" help from ChatGPT. The Power of ChatGPT I’d dabbled with the same task scripting years ago but quickly gave up because of the time it required. Enter ChatGPT (no marketing here... I am a paid user though...), the real hero of this story. With its assistance, I wrote the majority of the script in less than a day before i gave up ! But anyway, of course, I still have to thank the emergence of Large Language Models! Based on the current code volume and quality, without 10 to 15 days, a single person would absolutely not be able to achieve the current results! So, I believe LLMs have helped me improve my efficiency by at least 10 times! And they've helped me avoid all sorts of…