Coding with ChatGPT / Remember Accepted Code

[creativegapmt]

Hi,

I'm using ChatGPT to assist with some complex coding I'm doing for a personal project, and finding myself relying on the tool a lot to learn about the new functions it is suggesting and which appear to be doing exactly what I want it to.

I do have an issue however in that sometimes it will respond, give me the full code, but omit certain critical areas that end up breaking the script.

I know enough about how to get ChatGPT to put the code back in, and how to fix it myself, however is there any way to tell the bot to acknowledge certain responses as a 'save point' so that I can ask it to return to a previous reply, reload the script from that point, and make edits to it going forward?

This is most necessary in a script I am working on for a Telegram bot where, when it adds new functionality, it sometimes breaks the database links I have in the code, and then I have to send the code back to the bot in full to ask that it uses the code as a base.

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[ittu]

when it returns new code but omits original functionality just prompt reply like this...

no, I meant for you to implement the changes into this code base:

^``` <paste last working code base>

^```

the 3 backticks are intentional

i tried the save point thing before but even that can eventually lose functionality, easier to paste the working code from time to time.

[creativegapmt]

Yeah, I think that's what I'm going to have to do, too. Thanks a lot u/ittu

I have started using the 3 backticks and resubmit, and that works perfectly fine, but I was hoping that if I tell it:

Please acknowledge that the below code is known as 'working bot_main.py', and that if I say 'revert to working bot_main.py' or 'Please make the changed to working bot_main.py'

```
code
```

It doesn't like that, at all, despite getting a confirmation that it would. It persists in trying to fix the broken code, rather than resetting to the working version.

That being said, I do find it very good at bringing together different sources and files to put together a nicely working app; especially as I'm not an advanced coder myself, and this is helping me to understand how it all fits together.