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by webscalist 1236 days ago
But is GPT a web scale like MongoDB?
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Amusingly, the more Web scale a technology is, like MongoDB or Redux, the more blog articles will have been written about it, making this technique work better. More hype directly translates into more robustness.

So yes, I think ChatGPT is already very web scale.

webscalist was referencing a 12 year old joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Oh my god, this came out shortly before my first job in tech and I haven't seen it since. This whole series is hilarious.
The idea is that chatGPT just writes the code, it would be still be hosted as usual.

We’re going through a hype phase right now and i don’t believe chatGPT will completely replace devs or code will be written entirely with AI but i feel something will change for sure and something unexpected will come out of this

I don't think so? It sounds like the state of the app is being persisted via the chat history:

> We represented the state of the app as a json with some prepopulated entries which helped define the schema. Then we pass the prompt, the current state, and some user-inputted instruction/API call in and extract a response to the client + the new state.

GPT is slow as a dog
If you want loyalty, get a GPT [or a dog, that still works, too].