3 Simple Ways ChatGPT Can Make You a Better Coder 

I totally agree. Learning how to use these tools effectively is going to become more and more important when coding. I’m just getting started with copilot and suggestions it generates can be hit or miss but overall very helpful. I tried to make the examples in this video less about code generation and more about code improvement instead of code generation because that’s where I see chatGPT being more helpful than copilot.

Is copilot helpful? I read negative comments about it

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hahah me too. It has cut so much time in doing all the stuff you mentioned some of which I often procrastinate on while I focus on the interesting stuff. I think there will be a lot of stigma around it for this usecase while it's new. Much of the criticism surrounds it's ability to present plausible looking answers while being incorrect. However, if you are a professional engineer with experience you should realise it's another tool. You are in a different position to be able to interact and utilise this tech because you have a wealth of expertise you can use to apply common sense and analysis to which responses are terrible and which responses you can use and adjust as appropriate.

Until it automates you out.

Thanks. I tried to make this one short and sweet.

Love that. Thanks so much for watching

Totally agree. ChatGPT Can be a great assistant for people hoping to improve their code.

Indeed its true, thanks for your efforts, please keep sharing good stuff, best wishes..!!

Interesting! I wonder if that is because it has been trained on the existing documentation or if it just can understand the code better. Will be interesting to see how this changes people's worflows in the future.

@@robmulla It could be documentation. For example, I was interested in consuming a large csv in chunks so I gpt searched "pandas read csv 1000 rows at a time" and it gave me something that looked like it was sourced from the documentation but a bit more readable and a solid code snip to work with. It might be an example that's preicse enough to get a good result, but something that took a couple of tries to get without gpt. From there I added in strict typing at read time. Once I got a few specifications working, I then used the actual documentation to see what else could be hedged as useful. Just a working style that has worked well. Overall, I wouldn't rely on gpt to solve my problem, but allow it to align me better with documentation so that I can solve a problem more effectively.

Awkward?

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.

I love how polite chatGPT is! I've noticed that too.

Thanks for the sub!

Yea, it will probably slowly become more a part of our day to day lives that we rely on these types of models to make us faster. But the ideas still need to come from somewhere!

Thanks! As you saw in my last video it doesn't do better than stackoverflow in all cases (yet) but it's getting close and can answer very specific questions very well.

I agree. Especially if you already know how to code the comments can seem a little obvious. But then you wouldn't need to use ChatGPT anyways :)

Thanks Patrick!

Awesome! I’m sure there are other ways it can be used to improve code. I’d love to hear them if there are more I forgot to mention.

That is cool!

I’ve been doing exactly the same. Checking my emails or posts on social media and allowing it to improve my wording. The only reason I don’t always use the suggestions is it makes me sound more robotic and formal… it really is a game changer to me though.

The big risk and the major criticisms I suspect will come from it's fallibility and it's potential to be used as a crutch for professionals and as a detriment to new learners. However, combining hard-earned expertise and wisdom it's an incredible tool to accelerate so many different workflows and use cases. Like anything, it simply must be used responsibly.

I didn’t catch that at first. Good eye! I haven’t found chatgpt to boost my productivity. But I have with copilot! Main difference is copilot is actually integrated into vscode.

I love it. ChatGPT is giving you more confidence to grow. That’s the best possible outcome IMHO. Jarvis sounds like a perfect name 😊

I agree 100% - we can't stop innovation but we can plan for how it will impact people in the future - and hopefully minimize the negative impacts.

Have you been naughty or nice? 😂

@@robmulla nice of course

Wait what???? Is this serious? If so that’s awesome