10 I learned from writing an app using chatGPT over the weekend
I wrote a metronome app. I will probably publish it soon. If I can stop fiddling with it long enough.
1. Feature creep is a huge temptation
2. chatGPT is very good at JavaScript
3. work slowly and test each change
4. Even as a developer that can understand code when I started pasting in what it said without studying it first, it would work, but I would get confused at the state of the application.
5. One of the most important parts of techniques, and working with chatGPT is to be able to organize the output
The built-in search is great
6. Without a clear idea of what the end goal was, I ended up with feature creep, and I am not finished
This is still a learning experiment so this is part of the process
7. Learn how to use your history
8. chatGPT is very good at CSS
9. I would use the mobile app and continue to ask ChatGPT to work on the project while I was walking the dog
10. The pace of work was overwhelming, and I gave myself a headache, because it was moving so fast
This will take practice and getting used to, but it is level up in the way that I will be able to create applications in the future.
A large language model turns the pace of development around. It will create code as fast as you can give it an idea and the code is ready to paste into your project before you understand it. If you do this rapid iteration for a few hours, you will be confused and need to take a break.
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