I’ve been using Python a lot lately for small automation and AI experiments, and one of the simplest but surprisingly useful things I built was a text summarizer. The idea is very basic: you give it a long piece of text, and it returns a shorter version that still keeps the main meaning. Nothing fancy just Python + an AI API but it’s actually something you can turn into real tools pretty quickly. I started with a simple thought: most of the time, I don’t need all the text, I just need the key idea. So I tried to automate that. Here’s the core part of the code : python id = " h3k1a9 " from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI ( api_key = " YOUR_API_KEY " ) def summarize_text ( text ): response = client . chat . completions . create ( model = " gpt-4o-mini " , messages = [ { " role " : " system " , " content " : " Summarize the text in a clear and simple way. " }, { " role " : " user " , " content " : text } ] ) return response . choices [ 0 ]. message .…