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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by tinyprojects on Friday March 31, 2023 @06:16AM (#35384834)
100% this.

I just used GPT-4 to help build an analytics dashboard using ChartJS. There's so many settings in ChartJS, it would have taken me a week to StackOverflow / Google how to get my charts how I'd like them - it took me a day with GPT-4. I could just ask it anything and it would help no problem. Any buggy code it produced, I'd just copy and paste the error message and it would provide a fix.

The day before I built a basic version of Stripe Radar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35323278

Coding with AI has made me more excited to build than ever before after 10+years of programming.

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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by newtwilly on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:32AM (#35386902)
What interface are you using? I've so far only used ChatGPT through the web interface. (I pay for plus). I just ask it for things that are standalone snippet-like things. Perfect functions on the standard library, or an emacs lisp snippet for converting a unix epoch to an ISO timestamp. I'm not sure I could allow it to read my company's code, but is that what you're doing when you're using as part of a large project like that?
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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by xxswagmasterxx on Friday March 31, 2023 @01:19PM (#35390125)
Imo the chartjs docs are not very good. Or i'm just used to rust's docs.rs, where the whole api surface is documented. I couldn't find something like this for chartjs.
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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by manicennui on Friday March 31, 2023 @03:04PM (#35391784)
You mean like this?

https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/api/

I just started looking at the docs a couple minutes ago to understand why the OP claims that it would have taken a week to accomplish something with this library. I don't get it.

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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by manicennui on Friday March 31, 2023 @03:05PM (#35391806)
How is it possible that any task could take a week or more with this library? It looks extremely straightforward and the documentation contains lots of examples.
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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by the_cramer on Saturday April 01, 2023 @05:28AM (#35398722)
Not sure what your background is, but in my experience, some tinkering takes ages. Some tasks you deem to be a lot of work are relatively fast in the end. And some tasks produce errors that send you on a journey for hours. Straight forward looks and good docs may not help here.
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