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I self taught myself how to code and have never been very good, I don't code often and when I do I spend a lot of time relearning some simple programming detail

by kneel 4y ago

I self taught myself how to code and have never been very good, I don't code often and when I do I spend a lot of time relearning some simple programming detail I forgot. ChatGPT (also copilot) allows me to focus on the project that I'm working on and offload the stack overflow searches to prompting. I don't have to find a similar error someone else posted on SO and figure out how it applies to my current problem. I can keep a high level view of the project and not get bogged down with silly bugs, learning new libraries, or deciphering someone else's code. I imagine there are a lot of people who are in a similar situation, it's crazy that we've just unleashed this massive productivity booster onto millions of people.

kneebonian 4y ago
> I imagine there are a lot of people who are in a similar situation, it's crazy that we've just unleashed this massive productivity booster onto millions of people. Maybe it makes me sound like an elitist git, but I remember when the coding bootcamps started "unleashing massive productivity boosts" by promising to make people "full-stack engineers" in just a 6 weeks, and I still shudder to remember the code horrors I've seen as a result of that.
- kneel 4y ago
  To be clear, I don’t think we are getting a bunch of rockstar coders from chatGPT prompt engineering. It’s more about the CFO who can now write his own SQL queries and dashboards, project managers can dive into details they don’t understand and come to meetings a little more prepared. This boosts everyone’s productivity, not just coders.