Use ChatGPT to speed-up your programming

Day 12/365 of my journey as the Founder of Zencal

Hello 👋

Today's post is a bit more technical. I would like to share how Chat-GPT can be used to do boring tasks, and save time to spend on coffee or other important things ☕

I work in a technology stack where PHP is the king of the backend, and ReactJS rules the frontend. Here's how you can quickly generate code that will work for preparing a boilerplate for a specific solution.

Of course, this is not a complete solution, but considering the speed of generating this code vs the speed of typing on the keyboard, we already have a good gain here. See the example below.

I wanted to generate a simple form for editing users. Therefore, I need:

• a table in the database

• some model

• a form on the frontend

• an API endpoint (which I didn't do because if you want to, try doing it yourself)

I used the 3.5 turbo model for this purpose, which is sufficient for simple "repetitive" things.

1. Table in the database

Prompt

Result

2. Model

prompt

result

3. Form

prompt

result

4. Validation improvement

prompt

result

Summary

Using Chat GPT to generate boring, less ambitious code is a game changer in my opinion. You can even have it in your IDE. Just use Github Copilot, which changes the experience of writing code - seriously. However, I will write about it another time as I am still testing it.

Meanwhile, let me know in the comments if and how you use Chat GPT to make your life easier. Because you use it, right? Come on, tell me you do 😅

Cheers ✌️