I mean saying that using ChatGPT will make you one of the most elite coders in the world is a pretty high bar no?
I have been skeptical about all this, but decided to play with using ChatGPT for coding a task I had. It wasn't perfect, either in workflow or in final results but what was clear was that not adopting it will very quickly make you lag behind your peers.
I think the additive bonus is especially high for senior devs who are fast, in that those will be faster in grokking the generated code and better at guiding it to the right solution.
I guarantee you that in five years anybody who cares at all about their productivity will be using it constantly in their workflow, probably much sooner.
The tooling will be pretty interesting.. basically prompts per file and a overlaying diff per prompt..
Focus mostly on the almost functional design of software, with well defined input and output as the most important criteria. Also lots of "meta" tags, that filter the trained in network layers for "fast" code, "secure" code, "minimal working smaple" code by injecting addtional prompts. The trick is to use the prompts as a selection menue for the data variations stored within the Network.
I imagine that a web service could be specified in one file. At the top, a description of the service, including the language it is to be written in and how it will be built and deployed. Then an outline of the endpoints and their functionality.
A builder bot could then ask a series of questions and get permissions such as “can we use X package?”, and then update the specification before performing the build.
Chatgpt is an amazing learning tool, currently it helped me understand scripting very quickly and expanded what I was never would thought to do.
I know I could have used google but the way google presented me is not easy to find and digest, you have ads, you have article that is not exactly what you are looking for and the code examples are not exact. Gpt eliminates all that time and effort. It almost eliminates laziness
You need to use it now because it works, not perfect but it reached the 80/20 for enough things, and you still need to do the last 20. Even if not, it will get you some gains if you use it when it fits
I have been skeptical about all this, but decided to play with using ChatGPT for coding a task I had. It wasn't perfect, either in workflow or in final results but what was clear was that not adopting it will very quickly make you lag behind your peers.
I think the additive bonus is especially high for senior devs who are fast, in that those will be faster in grokking the generated code and better at guiding it to the right solution.
I guarantee you that in five years anybody who cares at all about their productivity will be using it constantly in their workflow, probably much sooner.