2 Comments

I have used ChatGPT for code generation and usually you have to guide it several times before it gives the outcome you are looking for. Nevertheless I still find it useful as it definitely helps save time in having to write all those lines of code from scratch and debug over and over again. I am not a coder by profession but the times I have used chatGPT, it has not been a bad experience, rather a learning curve in understanding how to query it and provide examples of sample code to ChatGPT so that it understands what exactly you are asking for.

Expand full comment

interesting. I'd be curious to hear how experience changes if you use it on a daily basis.

I find most of my day to day work now is about doing "the same thing" over and over again but in different ways. I typically know what I want to code up upfront but I don't have an exact shape in mind. I get to the right shape of code through iteration (like what I described in the article) but so far it's easier to do it myself as IDE shortcuts, navigation, and typing it myself are more efficient than prompting an llm.

Expand full comment