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by itaileibowitz 1134 days ago
ChatGPT is my new teammate! Well, sort of...

I hadn't coded in ages. I started a hobby project to see whether I could remember enough to "set up a cute chatbot over email" with ChatGPT's API.

At some point, ChatGPT asked me what added value users would get from the project. That was an interesting question!

It was also an excellent example of how this project became more of a collaboration instead of a one-way street of asking ChatGPT to do stuff. The back-and-forth brings in added value beyond each of our contributions.

So we (the AI and I) decided to document this collaborative journey on the project. So far, we've worked on:

1. Planning the project and pieces of it: excellent for frameworks, ideas, and feedback.

2. Coding + tech setup: we wrote about six superpowers, from choosing between options (like AWS vs. GCP vs. Zapier) to learning code best practices and more.

3. Building a website with ChatGPT and other AI tools in a day.

4. Making a video for social media.

And there are other parts we'll continue to write about. For anyone interested, you can read more at: https://dearai.substack.com/p/introduction