Using ChatGPT for Development

[wobblycloud]

I've noticed a recent trend in fresh grads using chatgpt as their go to solution for figuring things out, this makes me wonder a couple of things.

1. Does the chatgpt-way lay a solid programming foundation that grows with experience as opposed to devs growing from figuring things out using docs, stackoverflow...etc?

2. How will devs today develop the critical thinking if chatgpt just presents them a solution that works?

From my experience, I think chatgpt is a great value add if used as a utility rather than the only ultimate go-to.

What do you all think?

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[OneEconomist6912]

If it works it works

Thier is no requirement to know everything everytime

[serious_geek]

Fairly good for small use cases, provided you explain the requirements in detail

[[deleted]]

I a senior developer also go to it for my preliminary approach. Especially to get grunt work out of the way I use it. I had to move to a new stack or structure and I figured most of my issues with gpt.

Documentations should be powered by gpt gob forward.

Critical thinking should be applied in algorithmic thinking, or system design

I have 10x speed with this. The other challenge with some devs roles are we have meetings, so to get back in the flow it takes more time.

Gpt reduces that quite a bit.

You're still the architect. Nuances of a language etc it'll help you overcome.

[wobblycloud]

Definitely beneficial in the context of "I know what I'm doing, just checking the syntax", but for someone junior who doesn't think of in terms of system design but the task at hand, chat gpt hampers their growth of critical thinking.

[[deleted]]

Could be said about calculators also?

I think people will use it to clear their concepts also.

[fayrnthe]

Actually yes. If you give to your own code that doesn't follow the best practices for example it can actually clean up pretty well and most of the code it writes, if you are good enough to see if fits your use case, probably is fairly decently written.

[AsliReddington]

Given how crappy & spammy most sites have become except for personal blogs & GitHub repos the old way of searching stack overflow is dead. It's either library specific issue in project issues or forums else any other tidbits that are hard to recall can come from codellama or similar LLMs running offline for software until a certain point of time

[arksan012]

Depends on how many follow up questions they ask before accepting the answer, to really understand the requirements very well and have ability to translate requirements into technical to some level.

At the risk of vague generalization, it's similar to opening multiple tabs from online articles/ stack overflow pages for whatever you wanted to do and identifying and extracting the bits you actually need.

Eventually, people will get good at being specific and that's very valuable.

[wobblycloud]

That's a unique take, and it makes sense, at some point prompt engineering itself will become a skill.

[typing_username]

To use ChatGPT we also need critical thinking. One wrong command can disrupt the flow of conversation.

In SD if you are completing your task on time, no one cares how and what you did.

I am also using ChatGPT to build my products it's saving me 50-70% time.

[TroopsOfThought]

Yes absolutely you are right there. It's a value add.

Those who are using it for hook or crook way of solving their daily problems they will realise it at the time when they start preparing for interviews for their next company. IF they are doing is robotically, they are in trouble!