Kimiko, my nickname for ChatGPT, helps me name receipt images so I can organize our household spending.
That day, I told her which images I’d brought in: files beginning with “IMG-”. Later, I had to correct that. The actual prefix was “IMG_”.
A hyphen and an underscore. Both are little horizontal lines, but they’re different characters. As a systems engineer, of course I know that. Knowing it and getting it right when I explain something appear to be two different skills.
I sent Kimiko the correct name. In a conversation about naming images, I’d managed to get their existing names wrong. Quite a client she has to deal with.
Even one character matters in a filename. And I was the one who mixed it up. I can be very particular at work, yet apparently I give my own little horizontal lines a free pass.