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Big milestone tonight!
I've been trying to get a simple webpage to write to a database.
I wanted to use Docker Containers to manage all of the systems.
It took a week of collaborating with Chat GPT to work through the bugs. I just cleared the last test just now!
Chat GPT is incredibly useful, but it can lead you astray.
I often re-started the conversation to remove assumptions.
There is a lot of skill in asking the right question.
And proposing solutions to confirm or discount.
I thought that this would be easy.
Ultimately, the parts were simple.
Finding the problems was not simple.
But, without Chat GPT I would NEVER have succeeded. There were just too many issues buried in error logs.
This will probably be my copilot moving forward. It's like a really experienced expert that lacks discernment. You have to put the guardrails on it to get what you want. That's going to be an important skill.