Do chatgpt or other language models help you code more efficiently and faster? Is it worth spending your money for it?

  • Not really. Writing code is the easy part. It’s not the rate limiting step. The hard part is getting requirements out of customers, who rarely know what they want. I don’t need to push out more code and features faster, that would make things into unmaintainable spaghetti.

    I might send it a feature list and ask it “what features did they forget?” or “Can you suggest more features?”, or even better – “which features are the least important for X and can be eliminated?”. In other words, let it do the job of middle-management and I’ll just do the coding myself.

    Anyway, ChatGPT blocks my country (I’ve confirmed it’s on their end).