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I was just talking to a colleague last week about how my use of grokking stack exchange with Google for anything relating to hanging code together has been utte
by mjsweet 4y ago
I was just talking to a colleague last week about how my use of grokking stack exchange with Google for anything relating to hanging code together has been utterly disrupted by ChatPGT.
I haven't used Google as much since it launched...
Two days after ChatGPT launched I asked it to create a bash script that updates my active registered domain names in AWS with new domain, admin and tech contacts... a task I have been putting off for years and keep getting reminders each year to update contacts. I have too many domains to be bothered with AWS's regressive UX.
It made a script for me (after a few prompts) that used aws-cli (version two, you have to tell it that) to pull a list of active domains (using Jq no less) and update the contact details listed in variables in the bash file.
Look, I know sometimes versions of software with ChatGPT can be in conflict, but it just worked... first time???
I was done in 30 minutes, as opposed to hours of code pasting, rumination and iterating over and over (I'm a code paster, not a code cutter) with stack exchange and other sites like it.
It also explained how to do everything with extremely lucid instructions!
Look guys, I'm not a coder, I sort don't know how to do things in terms of for loops and navigating data structures, but I definitely know what to do and why I need to do it, which probably makes me an architect and not an engineer.
ChatGPT has reduced my Google usage for this range of use cases down to near zero.
It's a "game changer" and I hate that term.
For me, this is why Google has called a "Code Red".
Thank about all the other use cases that regular folks have?
It's no wonder they called a code red.