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YesChatGPT · 14 Nov 2023

I put the URL for the documentation into ChatGPT premium, and it spat out a working solution

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In the thread “A coder considers the waning days of the craft”

Helped: Urgent need and offshore team lead unavailability.

I manage a number of development teams, and I don’t get to write much code anymore, but I was asked to urgently build an integration. The team lead I was going to assign the task to was offshore, and not yet online, so I put the URL for the documentation into ChatGPT premium, and it spat out a working solution. My team lead was a bit perturbed and created a more enterprisy solution with factories and DI (more out of pride than necessity), but my original code was production ready. …