I tried to get chatgpt4 to generate a basic react app that had a public page and a private page. you get access to the private page by authenticating with a google auth popup. gpt valiantly generated code and instructions for google auth. the code was impressive but buggy (outdated api version), but successively pasting errors into chatgpt went most of the way toward fixing it.
the instructions for configuring google auth were off. I tried a number of different ways to get gpt to give me the right instructions, but to no avail.
so it was back to the old way, of spending a few hours reading google's documentation (which I'm doing today) to figure it out.
once I'm there, I feel confident I could better coach chatgpt to instruct me. though I wouldn't necessarily need the help at that point.
on the code side, staring at the google auth api code it had generated, I was faced with a hard truth. I didn't understand this code. to iterate with it, essentially to develop it, I would continue to be dependent on GPT. Even if there was a one liner needed, I wouldn't be able to come up with it on my own. I'd always have to rely on this outside "brain". How can that be more efficient than a tight REPL loop conducted by me, an evolving master of this API?
And how will we humans even maintain knowledge of these API surfaces if we are not putting in our hours and hours of repetitive usage of them? We become ignorant of the evolving capabilities of the computing platform. And chatgpt becomes useless without humans who understand what's out there, what's needed.
the instructions for configuring google auth were off. I tried a number of different ways to get gpt to give me the right instructions, but to no avail.
so it was back to the old way, of spending a few hours reading google's documentation (which I'm doing today) to figure it out.
once I'm there, I feel confident I could better coach chatgpt to instruct me. though I wouldn't necessarily need the help at that point.
on the code side, staring at the google auth api code it had generated, I was faced with a hard truth. I didn't understand this code. to iterate with it, essentially to develop it, I would continue to be dependent on GPT. Even if there was a one liner needed, I wouldn't be able to come up with it on my own. I'd always have to rely on this outside "brain". How can that be more efficient than a tight REPL loop conducted by me, an evolving master of this API?
And how will we humans even maintain knowledge of these API surfaces if we are not putting in our hours and hours of repetitive usage of them? We become ignorant of the evolving capabilities of the computing platform. And chatgpt becomes useless without humans who understand what's out there, what's needed.