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I'm a solo business owner who knows enough JS/TS/HTML/CSS to get by -- my product is a website full of information -- but I've never been 'a developer'. ChatGP
by jen729w 2y ago
I'm a solo business owner who knows enough JS/TS/HTML/CSS to get by -- my product is a website full of information -- but I've never been 'a developer'.
ChatGPT et. al. is a miraculous boost to my productivity. This morning I needed a function to iterate over some JSON and do stuff with it. Fairly mundane, and I could have written it myself.
Doing so would have been boring, routine, and would have taken me at least an hour. I asked ChatGPT 4o and I got exactly what I wanted in 30 seconds.
I can only hope that these tools enable more people like me to build more cool things. That's how it's affected me: I never would have hired another dev. No job is lost. I'm just exponentially better at mine.
- Timber-6539 2y agoThis is the killer app for gen AI. Everything else said about AI e.g replacing workers is just building castles in the air.
- justinbaker84 2y agoI have had a similar experience. I build wordpress websites and ChatGPT has allowed me to extend their functionality a great deal without needing to learn how to code PHP.
- genericacct 2y agoit needs to be said that web dev is by far the area in which LLMs are more versed , i suppose due to the incredible amount of training data available. Other languages produce more allucinations for now.
- authorfly 2y agoA good way to work with this is to use different agents Aider is pretty biased towards Python, for example (it's sample prompts largely use and test on Python)