| Did you use chatGPT? with vscode/copilot? (or other/local GPTs? (I am on GPT selection use overload, and I cant go spending a bunch of money on different GPT subscriptions when I dont know what actually fits my needs) What did you spend on everything to get going (gpt subscriptions/tools/initial AWS credits -- can people still get free cloud credits azure/gcp/aws) for their personal startup efforts? I try to play, and it plays bohemian rhapsody, but I cant type in a free answer and the submit button is greyed out... am I supposed to select from the pop-up-tips? https://i.imgur.com/ELx52GB.png How about a multiple choice mode. (also, its just a nice way to play random songs :-) --- I am in the exact same boat - a TPM for 30 years, and was a really technical Ops guy for half of it then mgmt and consulting for the other half - I used to be able to navigate AWS with my eyes closed, but havent even touched it in a couple years.... I am a social learner - so when I attempt to learn to code, I get stuck and googling doesnt help as much as a person.... So I have been thinking of apps that have been ruminating in my Amygdala for too long... The simple daunting pieces still daunt me, but this inspires me to put up my couple apps that should be quite simple. They all have kind of the same components - One is just a "Water Me" - take a pic of your plant(s) and it will ID the type of plant (stretch goal) - but have a simple watering schedule reminder. I love plants, but I am very bad at recalling when to water them or check on them - so I have gone through thousands of plants in my life for my Black Thumb. Other stretch goals are to have it tell me what plants go well together - I dont have a good aesthetic eye when it comes to plants. I like to look at r/cozyplaces and simply admire others' selection of different plants, which look great in-house, but I wouldnt have picked them at the nursery. --- The other is basically the same, but for making Baseball cards for little league teams... (I was using Bartender[0] to make labels for products, and playing with employee badge making - and my neighborhood kids have a tone of baseball happening around me (there are ~4 baseball fields within 1000 meters of my house...) - Thought the kids would like to make their own baseball cards (also helps that we have a baseball memorabilia room in our house with ~10,000 baseball cards...) these seem simple enough, but I have been too lazy to tackle them due to severe ADHD procrastination fears.' - [0] https://imgur.com/a/65wbd6a [0.1] https://www.seagullscientific.com/software/bartender-feature... |
I'm very much an interactive learner. Following aa article or youtube tutorial can be frustrating when something goes wrong locally but it's not covered in the material. Then your flow is broken by googling how you can best describe what you think your issue is.
I didn't use VScode or copilot integrations- I was literally just copying and pasting code snippets or errors into the browser ChatGPT. It would suggest code changes back, if ChatGPT only gave me a snippet but I wanted the full file I could just ask.
I understand at some level that it's still just an extremely sophisticated interface but it genuinely feels like magic/sentience. You're not contorted to what you think the limitations of 'how the thing likes to be instructed' like voice commands or Siri. You just talk freely about what you're trying to achieve, show it code and explain in plain language what you think has gone wrong or even that you have no idea why something doesn't work- it just teaches you how to debug.
You should dive in!