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So you are converting your code into english and then asking GPT to convert it back to code? Might as well right the code at that point.

• steve_adams_86 4y ago
  No, I send the code causing the error as part of the prompt, and it responds with that code with corrections (if it can). The only English is the prompt describing the role and response I need from GPT. I could write the code myself, but the thing is, if this program works then in theory it could address trivial errors at any time of day, at very high speed. The better it gets at doing this, the more useful it could be. Most automations start out very inefficient, and many stay that way. I mostly do it to learn but I also see a real opportunity to remove a certain type of task from my plate if this service works well. Of course, other companies (like GitHub) have likely already prototyped this and whoever runs with it will do a far better job than I'm doing. That's totally fine though, I'm just doing this to learn. At first I was thinking I would have this inspect errors from something like Sentry, try to solve the issue, then spin up a PR or something if it succeeded (I have a version which also writes tests to verify its changes succeeded, but it's flaky when the intent in the code isn't crystal clear). I realized though that this would probably be better as an extension in an IDE which can intercept error stacks in a terminal or over a port. That way there's full control over apply patches and no need to arbitrarily run code, which requires a whole virtual machine approach. Anyway, fun to learn, might be useful somehow, but totally cool if ultimately I do just write the code myself.