[alxlu]

Doesn’t this only work for relatively contrived situations? I can tell a jr dev to go and add some minor feature in a codebase, put it behind a flag, and add tracking/analytics to it. I can point to the part of the application I want the feature to be added on the screen and the jr devs are often able to find it on their own. I haven’t seen chatGPT do anything like that and I don’t think there is a way to provide it with the necessary context even if it has the capability.

[scarface74]

For me it works for small stand alone utility scripts. But the most impressive thing I was able to get it to do was.

“Given an XML file with the format {[1]} and a DynamoDB table with two fields “Key”, “Value”, write a Python script that replaces the Value in the xml file when the corresponding key is found. Use argparse to let me specify both the input xml file and the output XML”

It spit out perfect Python code. I hadn’t used XML in well over a decade and I definitely didn’t know how to read xml in Python. I didn’t want to bother about learning.

I actually pasted an XML sample like the link below.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/developer/vis...