Agreed. I find some (little) value in getting throwaway code done. What is useful is asking chatgpt instead of googling and then checking the results - which

Agreed. I find some (little) value in getting throwaway code done. What is useful is asking chatgpt instead of googling and then checking the results - which feels like faster googling, i.e. it's a familiar process, just streamlined. What I find useful and new is the ability to do a quick occasional consult on a tool or on what code does, e.g.: I thought a makefile should be reading something from an environment variable - it wasn't - so I had this quick chat: ChatGPT 3.5 User: Hi again :wave: as usual I like terse replies lets understand makefiles ChatGPT: :wave: Sure, makefiles are used for building and managing projects... >8-------redacted non-terse makefile summary User: What does this mean/do? ```Makefile $(eval TERRAFORM_VERSION:=1.4.5) ``` ChatGPT: In this Makefile snippet, the $(eval ...) function is used to evaluate the expression and set the variable TERRAFORM_VERSION to the value 1.4.5. The eval function in a Makefile is a way to perform variable assignments dynamically during the execution of the Makefile. So, after this line is executed, TERRAFORM_VERSION will be defined with the value 1.4.5. This can be useful for specifying and managing the version numbers or other variables in a Makefile, allowing for more flexibility and easy updates. User: so 1.4.5 is constant - it doesn't look at the environment variable? ChatGPT: Yes, that's correct. In the given Makefile snippet, the TERRAFORM_VERSION is explicitly set to the constant value 1.4.5. It doesn't dynamically look at the environment variable or any other external source; rather, it directly assigns the specified value to the variable during the evaluation of the Makefile. If you want to make it dynamic and read from an environment variable, you would use a different approach.