Ask the LLM to write code for it

This article covers a useful LLM pattern where you ask the LLM to write code to solve a problem instead of asking it to solve the problem directly. The problem of merging two transcripts I had two files that contained two halves of the transcript of an audio recording and I wanted to use an LLM to merge the two halves. There were three reasons that stopped me from simply copying part 2 and pasting it after part 1: the two transcripts overlapped (the end of part 1 was after the start of part 2); the timestamps for part 2 started from 0, so they were missing an offset; and speaker identification was not consistent. I uploaded the two halves into ChatGPT and asked it to merge the two transcripts, fix the timestamps and the speaker identification, but to not change the text. The result I got back was a ridiculous attempt at providing the full transcript, with two sections that supposedly represented parts of either transcript I could just copy and paste confidently, and a couple of other r