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how is this different than git cloning an already done hello world style app/using a blog article with a code sample?

• dpkirchner 4y ago
  You can ask the bot to flesh out the code and implement new features (roughly) in seconds. For example, if you have a notes app, you could ask the bot to write code that integrates it with existing calendar apps, and it'd take less than a minute to get you close.
  • MuffinFlavored 4y ago
    > and it'd take less than a minute to get you close. Have you actually tried this yourself? I have probably... 300+ ChatGPT chats/sessions past 30 days (aka, I actually use it). I have 0 faith it would actually spit out anything error-free / working.
    • dpkirchner 4y ago
      Yeah, I've had success, and it has either produced useful code or nearly useful code. I use it to refactor functions and write regexes, tedious stuff.
• throwaway4aday 4y ago
  1. You don't have to know about the existence of such repos 2. You don't have to find a good blog article that works for your specific purpose 3. You can ask for changes to the code like "translate this code to python" "I want to use Azure instead of AWS" "add a database so I can save player scores" etc. and it will both write the code and explain what it did. 4. You can ask for elaboration if you don't understand something, it can describe code or it can further explain written text. 5. It can explain why you're getting an error message after you change something and suggest a way to fix it. 7. If you have a feature you want to add but don't know how you can just ask it and it will show you how to implement the feature and how to integrate it into the existing code. There's a lot more, too much to list but every one of these is far more useful than just cloning a repo and following an article.