So nice!

For prior art (not GPT-3 based) in debian/ubuntu based distributions:

    /usr/share/doc/cron/examples/crontab2english.pl

    perl /usr/share/doc/cron/examples/crontab2english.pl /etc/cron.d/myfile

    $ head -2  /usr/share/doc/cron/examples/crontab2english.pl
    #!/usr/bin/perl
    #Time-stamp: "2001-07-29 16:07:28 MDT"

This is incredible. While there is still a decent rate of false-positives or errors, it's such a nicer user interface than the powerful yet hard-to-read cron syntax.

Any chance it could be made into a library/api?

A different take on the same idea: Cron tab Guru [1]. I use this tool all the time.

I'd love a CLI version of this tool, where I pass in the cron expression and it tells me the english translation.

[1] https://crontab.guru/

This was inspired by previous work using GPT-3 to generate regex. It uses the new codex model and works surprisingly well.

Let me know if you get any interesting results!

I feel like AI is a poor fit for this domain, because the whole point of using a tool like this would be to check/ensure correctness. Perhaps it should at least also offer a precise translation back the other way?

Scheduled tasks are hard enough to debug as it is. The last thing I want to do is add more indeterminism!

Really cool project, but I may have found a mistake. Typing "21st night september" returns “At 12:00 AM, on day 21 of the month, only in September”. And I would expect it to be maybe 9-11:59pm, not midnight that morning. But maybe 'night' is just not very well defined?

It nailed "every hour on Fridays" damn, must be ai backed.

> "every third thursday"

... nice. Other folks are beating ya up based on their first try but mine was exactly correct!

Adding to my cron tools bookmarks - cool stuff.

This is pretty great. It would be nice if it were able to handle exceptions, for example:

"The second Sunday of every month except in December"

Really liked, "Last Monday of every month except August".

I tried other hard ones and got rate limited :(

This is so cool! Don't use cron jobs often but in love with the UI!

I made a similar tool [1] to convert English to Excel formulas but would def take a page out of your super clean look!

[1] https://www.tersho.com

This looks incredibly cool. One thing, the <title> has a typo: Chon Prompt

It's erroring out on me but I wanted to try one of my stackoverflow questions from long ago that still gets frequent votes:

Every 15 minutes except at 3AM?

Stackoverflow responses say it can't be done in one line.

Great, using "never" as prompt results in:

"At 12:00 AM, on day 31 of the month, only in February"

Good tool . I Tried: "On alternate Saturday at noon"

Not sure if it gave right results. but i think this is amazing stuff. Thanks for building it.

This is great. CRON presets are great, but this is perfect for allowing users to define their own CRON expressions. Nice work!

Cool tool, I'd use this.

"When the stock market closes and opens" - I think the stock market opens at 9:30 though, not 9.

I gave it "every full moon" and it gave me 0 0 * * * *

Still some more work, methinks.

I keep getting the too many requests error even though I've never tried it before.

A fun game is to put an emoji or two in the prompt and see what comes out :)

Oh, this is just cool. Nice work.

not finding an acceptable way to describe

"first and third Tuesday at noon each month "

> 2 hours after 3 5 and 7

> 0 2 3,5,7 * *

Not great