My ChatGPT 4 Workflow & Tips as a Software Engineer

I tested ChatGPT 4 on a real world project and got some very good results.

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[danehague]

I currently use it as a tool for explaining more so than producing code. It's really good at concisely explaining software patterns with simple working examples etc.
It explained docker to me and helped me dockerize my application in minutes. I think it would take longer to find the information myself

[concernedcanadian]

I find gpt is a better tutor and assistant than a full replacement. It's really sped up my work flow.

[gambeta]

AI won’t replace jobs. People who know how to take advantage of AI will

[JacobSucksAtCode]

Storytelling is on point. Killing it Marko 😎

[aditunoe]

I frequently ask ChatGPT how to speed up my code, and I already had some major improvements out of that. Also, it's a charm to write docs based on the function and create unit tests (obviously needs to be double-checked).

[hugomartin]

In my case, instead of losing weeks of development time trying to create something decent to see if I can accomplish what I'm thinking of, or simply realizing that I cannot continue due to lack of knowledge, I have managed to create a mockup of the application in just two nights with almost all the functionalities I had in mind. It's amazing.

[Mohammad-twcq]

Great video. You do an excellent job of breaking down the project while also making it entertaining to watch.

[CAnth]

Great video as always! I have been using GPT4 to help me with google sheets commands and small amounts of gscript recently, which it is very good at. I agree about the context barrier however - I have hit this a couple times when working on some larger projects and asking for advice

[moonxcoder]

Very interesting and brief video you threw right here. Love your videos, Marko!

[mrlowkey]

I've started using with the same intent, to see if it will replace me. So far, I've found it really good for documenting code. I just explain to it the documentation I want and then I give it my function and the results are shockingly good.

[sczoot]

I think with a significantly higher token limit and harder training parameters to avoid code hallucinations it will pretty easily replace some basic contracting positions for people that have a pretty basic use case, specifically if it gains the ability to create the directory structure and files automatically and simply export the root directory locally or to the cloud.

[TraceursMonkey]

As a beginner I think is ok to use it but with moderation. Sure is faster than google, but you still need to go over documentation and examples by yourself if you want to learn. It is also useful for code review and even if it proms the solution is always good idea to ask it to explain in depth on how things work and also show at least another example.

[candidlyvivian]

What a great walkthrough Marko!
I don't remember how I survived without ChatGPT last year - it helps me so much with syntax / diagnosing any errors in my code.

[Paasj]

Heia Marko! Heia Norge! ChatGPT have saved me hours of work allready and I have done very little to optimize my prompts. Using a prerequisite standard seems like an awesome way to streamline the transformer towards a ideal response!! Thank you!

[KonstantinTarasevic]

I also work and live in Norway and work for an IT consulting company. I use it quite often, but I see it more as an assistant / Jarvis type of helper rather than something that will replace us in the future. People and companies just will integrate its possibilities as a part of “your job”. And you still need to know what you ask, and what you are building. That said - future looks extremely interesting.

[NarcYT]

The ways I use GPT as a dev are mostly for quickly doing tasks that would take me a while to do, help me go through a problem that's maybe more complex and requires hours and hours of testing different ideas, and finally I use it to learn and better myself, asking it things like "What are some good practices to X, Y, Z"

[CelowsBR]

It is helping me a lot with daily tasks and logics, works for me like a invisible friend hoo knows much more than me and it's there every time I need it! Amazing for sure!

[filippians]

I finally caved in and started using Chatgpt and it was pretty incredible. It's like going to stack overflow except you find the answer to your question almost immediately

[hawk-rjbs]

First time I've actually got to see a software engineer work, looked like so much fun!

[AbhilakshLalwani]

GPT-4 has double the context window of 3.5 (8192 tokens vs 4096 tokens). and there's a beta gpt-4 with 32768 tokens of context. That's around 50 A4 sheets of memory.