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It’s incredible for my use case. I have been involved in software and implementing technical things since the late 90s and from time to time have been pretty g
by CPLX 3y ago
It’s incredible for my use case.
I have been involved in software and implementing technical things since the late 90s and from time to time have been pretty good at a few things here and there but I am profoundly rusty in all languages I sort of know and useless in ones I don’t.
But I’m technical. I understand at sort of a core level how things work, jargon, and like the key elements of data structures and object oriented code and a MVC model and whatever else. Like I’ve read the right books.
Without ChatGPT I am close to useless. I’m better off writing a user story and hiring someone, anyone. Yes I can code in rails and know SQL and am actually pretty handy on the command line but like it would take me an entire day and tons of googling to get basic things working.
Then they launched GPT and I can now launch useful working projects that solve business problems quickly. I can patch together an API integration on a Sunday afternoon to populate a table I already have in a few minutes. I can take a website I’m overseeing and add a quick feature.
It’s literally life changing. I already have all the business logic in my head, and I know enough to see what GPT is spitting out and if it’s wrong and know how to ask the right questions.
Unlike the OP I have no plans to do anything complex. But for my use cases it’s turned me from a project manager into a quick and competent developer and that’s literally miraculous from where I’m standing.