Writing Code

CF: Can ChatGPT code?

RL: It can write code, just use at your own risk. The code it writes is pretty good for basic functions or if you’re very specific in what you need. And another thing I’ve seen people do is take the existing code and then tell it to modify that code in a certain way. And so it’s been pretty good with those kind of prompts. And the nice thing about ChatGPT versus some of the other things is that it’s conversational. So you can say, “Rewrite this answer but change this part,” and it’ll just rewrite the code for you to copy and paste. So it is like having an assistant or a copilot as you go about your day with a lot of  written tasks.

You can also ask it to build a table. You can say, “I’m looking up the following information and I want that information in the following columns”: name, description, impacted parts of the business, whatever your stuff is. And if ChatGPT is able to pull the information into a paragraph, it’s also able to pull that information into a table. And sometimes that’s a much more effective and efficient way to communicate.