The Joy and Sorrow of Coding with ChatGPT
Like many software developers, I’ve been using ChatGPT as a pair programmer, teacher, assistant, and general soundboard, experiencing both positive and occasionally not-so-good results. In this article, I will share a few notable experiences and interactions that have made an impact. Additionally, I’ll discuss how we can approach this and other AI tools in the near future.
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The basics
Where it has been a godsend is in the form of a productive assistant, so much of coding can at times be writing stuff like this :
testDatastructure = [Thing1, thing2...thingN]Instead you simply ask:
PROMPT: can i get a testdatastructure with 10 things inside in an array
test_data = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
didn't get quite what I wanted but it's easy to ask again:
PROMPT: Instead of numbers can you use car brands ?
car_brands = ["Toyota", "Honda", "Ford", etc,etc...So what ?, other AI tools like copilot do this and more just there by your code, where the assistant part gets its merit I think is from the expanded capabilities to pose more complex work queries :
