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I run FPGAjobs.com as a fun side project, and this describes my relationship with my product to a T. I love the "Fuck around and find out" aspect of it. I can

I run FPGAjobs.com as a fun side project, and this describes my relationship with my product to a T. I love the "Fuck around and find out" aspect of it. I can goof off and do fun things that occasionally add value to the business. Case and point: my all time most viewed page is a page that shows you a random FPGA meme. I threw it together with a bunch of FPGA memes that had made me laugh that I saved locally in a folder on my desktop. Net result: tons of backlinks, high engagement, and regular conversions of email list sign-ups. (https://www.fpgajobs.com/dank https://www.fpgajobs.com/dank) Funnily enough, ChatGPT has helped immensely with my ability to both putter about. ChatGPT can bang out Django features that'd take me a week in 10 mins. Most of that time is me copy/pasting and fixing the odd variable name that didn't translate. It's all the fun of creating with none of the docs spelunking or fundamental mistakes I make in Python or HTML.

stevesearer 3y ago
I find the same for my projects. I usually get them just far enough to work well, but the time commitment ends up becoming a grind for the more advanced features that are just out of my memory wheelhouse. I recently figured I was stuck with an Elasticsearch feature since I didn’t know what to google. ChatGPT got it working in 3-4 prompts with me feeding error messages to it. So I’m finding that I’m not only faster, but have new skills and can make features that were impossible before due to time commitment/ grind limitations.
- cushychicken 3y ago
  It's soooo cool and soooo much more fun. I enjoyed the hunt and peck of figuring out features one step at a time when I started, but my wife and I had a baby in Jan, so my long stretches of dev and debug time have gotten muuuuuch shorter. I've become that guy who needs results, and fast. I have become... Management. :,)
  - stevesearer 3y ago
    It kind of feels like when I first started goofing around editing html or css colors and how much fun that was and how much power that felt like it gave.
stevenhuang 3y ago
Hah that meme collection is awesome. Wish we can see them all at once though, I had to refresh a lot.
- cushychicken 3y ago
  If you email me at fpga.rtl.jobs@gmail.com I'll zip the folder and send it to you.
bthallplz 3y ago
Are there any resources you'd recommend for learning how to build Django features with ChatGPT? Reading your message and some of the replies is the first time I've felt interested in using ChatGPT.
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- cushychicken 3y ago
  Nope! Just trial and error. Django is widespread enough and ChatGPT is good enough that it's very good at inferring what you need. Try something like "Write a Django management command that does X with a model named Product" or "Write a Django view that shows all models named Card." It's generally smart enough to infer some of your model class names.

stevesearer 3y ago

I find the same for my projects. I usually get them just far enough to work well, but the time commitment ends up becoming a grind for the more advanced features that are just out of my memory wheelhouse. I recently figured I was stuck with an Elasticsearch feature since I didn’t know what to google. ChatGPT got it working in 3-4 prompts with me feeding error messages to it. So I’m finding that I’m not only faster, but have new skills and can make features that were impossible before due to time commitment/ grind limitations.

cushychicken 3y ago
It's soooo cool and soooo much more fun. I enjoyed the hunt and peck of figuring out features one step at a time when I started, but my wife and I had a baby in Jan, so my long stretches of dev and debug time have gotten muuuuuch shorter. I've become that guy who needs results, and fast. I have become... Management. :,)
- stevesearer 3y ago
  It kind of feels like when I first started goofing around editing html or css colors and how much fun that was and how much power that felt like it gave.

stevenhuang 3y ago

Hah that meme collection is awesome. Wish we can see them all at once though, I had to refresh a lot.

cushychicken 3y ago
If you email me at fpga.rtl.jobs@gmail.com I'll zip the folder and send it to you.

bthallplz 3y ago

Are there any resources you'd recommend for learning how to build Django features with ChatGPT? Reading your message and some of the replies is the first time I've felt interested in using ChatGPT.

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cushychicken 3y ago
Nope! Just trial and error. Django is widespread enough and ChatGPT is good enough that it's very good at inferring what you need. Try something like "Write a Django management command that does X with a model named Product" or "Write a Django view that shows all models named Card." It's generally smart enough to infer some of your model class names.