Re:Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT
by valenterry on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:59AM
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> The hard part is translating the business requirements into something that a computer could understand
No, that's actually the easy part.
The hard part is to translate the requirements into something that a computer can understand and a human can also easily understand at the same time. Because otherwise, it's a one-off program that can't really be changed afterwards anymore.
And that is the real challenge that I'm curious about: how good will ChatGPT be in not only helping me with small, trivial, issues, but with the big ones.
"ChatGPT, here's this small 500k line repository. I need to change the business requirements and make it so that when a user fails to login 3 times in a row, a captcha is being shown before they can attempt again."
And if ChatGPT then gives me a 10k line diff that would be terrible. It should really minimize the diff but still keep it understandable. THAT is what I would love to see.
No, that's actually the easy part.
The hard part is to translate the requirements into something that a computer can understand and a human can also easily understand at the same time. Because otherwise, it's a one-off program that can't really be changed afterwards anymore.
And that is the real challenge that I'm curious about: how good will ChatGPT be in not only helping me with small, trivial, issues, but with the big ones.
"ChatGPT, here's this small 500k line repository. I need to change the business requirements and make it so that when a user fails to login 3 times in a row, a captcha is being shown before they can attempt again."
And if ChatGPT then gives me a 10k line diff that would be terrible. It should really minimize the diff but still keep it understandable. THAT is what I would love to see.