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How ChatGPT Sucks To Code for You and What You Can Do About It
The symbiotic relationship between AI and software professionals
I bet you also use ChatGPT daily to have a lovely little assistant. But don’t you want more? So what if you could use ChatGPT to code for you reliably?
Imagine expanding on the list of features, not needing to understand what you are doing, and just getting delivered a working solution.
However, I expect to use it as described since the media is still full of claims that people will lose their jobs to AI soon. There is one major catch left.
The common problem of being not deterministic degrades it to a simple helper instead of a superpower.
So, I found a solution in an article by Eric Elliott about a deterministic solution to solve the only problem of introducing SudoLang.
The force made me try it out instantly and I learned to work with it. The plan was to make a few experiments by developing simple todo apps in plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript multiple times.
Spoiler-Alert: I was surprised but also puzzled and had to look twice what crazy stupid stuff the AI was trying to screw me with.
Here is my third and, by now last attempt to let ChatGPT take the senior developer role to develop an entire app for me.
The Goal of the Experiment
I wanted to test if anyone:
- Could use ChatGPT V4 to code for them reliably
- Expand on the list of features
- Not needing to understand what they are doing and just getting delivered a working solution
- In case of any errors, feed it back to the machine to get them fixed
The Experiment’s Setup
I Used the Following Tools:
- Chat GPT V4
- SudoLang
- The example of the Senior Developer Role
