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YesChatGPT · 14 Nov 2023

Chat GPT allowed me to do it in 15 minutes

raducu on Hacker News

50k user mappings

In the thread “A coder considers the waning days of the craft”, replying to this comment

Helped: Generating disposable code for data mapping and CSV creation.

… testing of my app) and I realized the mocked system was doing an externalUserId to internalUserId mapping. Usually that would have been a game stopper, but instead I did a slow run, asked Chat GPT to write code that reads data from a topic and eventually create a CSV of 50k user mappings; it would have taken me at least half a day to do that, and Chat GPT allowed me to do it in 15 minutes. While very little code went into my app, Chat GPT did write a lot of disposable code that did help me a lot.