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I'm a terrible amateur programmer. ChatGPT has let me be much, much more productive. I no longer waste tons of time on simple errors that are hard to spot, such
by boplicity 3y ago
I'm a terrible amateur programmer. ChatGPT has let me be much, much more productive. I no longer waste tons of time on simple errors that are hard to spot, such as badly written if statements, typos in variable names, etc. It can usually spot these things much more quickly than I can. Similarly, it greatly speeds up figuring out things like deployment and build issues, though it's certainly not perfect in that regard.
For example, yesterday, composer wasn't happy with some dependencies, which now require PHP 8.1. Upgrading the server to PHP8.1 broke everything -- so I have to figure out how to deal with the broken dependencies or updating the php version without breaking everything, or both. ChatGPT often can give me a quick answer to this type of thing. Though, it sometimes can't either, which leaves me about where I'd have been anyways.
- 4k93 3y agosame here! im more of a wannabe programmer "script kiddie". got into it through doing basic autohotkey stuff years ago and have been getting into python the last few years. i chanced my arm last night and asked bing chat to make me a python script that would take dynalist's exported OPML and convert it to workflowy's OPML format and it managed it on the first go! that seems crazy to me. i spent the next few hours reworking the code and ironing out a few edge cases, but it probably would have taken me a good few evenings if i had tried to do the whole thing by myself. ive been asking it a ton of questions about raspberry pi stuff, how to make browser extensions, various API stuff for messing around with spotify and youtube and lots of other things ive wanted to get into for a while but that i had been putting off because i didnt know where to start. a lot of it is seeming very do-able now all of a sudden