feels a little pointless to be running Python in the terminal when you can just speak directly to Davinci using bash.

You definitely can do it that way too! I just used Python to “pretty” the output and I am more familiar with it as well.

I'm more comfortable working in bash for 80% of my workload, and as far as end result im sure anything I can do in python could technically be achieved in bash. That doesn't mean it's always necessarily the best tool for me given x job. I think Python's a fine tool for this job, and the one I would have reached for to open a chat session, bash being better suited (to my mind) for a one off curl request.

Well said. 🙏

It’s useless to use bash when you can just do your petition in assembly.

:)