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> "I don't really know coding, but I've started my tiny niche SaaS with help of AI" How are you going to debug/extend the code if you don't know how it works?
by thefz 2y ago
> "I don't really know coding, but I've started my tiny niche SaaS with help of AI"
How are you going to debug/extend the code if you don't know how it works?
- NikolaNovak 2y agoI'm not the expert / one of those people who have done it, but my thoughts FWIW: The phrase "don't really know" is kind of doing the heavy lifting here - for example, I myself haven't done professional programming in 20 years, but I know the basics. Enough to be structured in my design / requirements / direction to LLM, and to read and comprehend the advice others have discovered and shared. With that in mind, extending the code seems to work fairly well - start with basic requirements and extend them through LLM. Having not done coding in 2 decades, I've asked ChatGPT to create a python script to interact with a website's API and retrieve an object; then I've extended it to retrieve and store multiple objects, then to input for parameters, etc. it was fun! Anyhoo, the use case discussed is not necessarily a complex enterprise resourcing application; but a little niche webapp with simple requirements, created by somebody who understands the domain itself more than coding, and which may be exciting to a target requirement, seems eminently doable with today's LLMs -- again, the proof is in the pudding of people who have done it, rather than my claims :)
- Ferret7446 2y agoIf the code works (well enough), do you need to debug it? And if you can get the LLM to debug/extend it for you good enough, does it matter if you understand it?