YOyosito·May 18, 2023
Yeah, I made CalendarMapApp in just a few hours having ChatGPT write all the code for me. https://github.com/localjo/CalendarMapApp
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4 sourcesThis is not a good proof of concept.
It appears[1] to be a single file (~200 lines of code) in an otherwise boilerplate React project. I know JS/TS very well, also have no iOS development experience, and could code this in a few hours easily. I don't even know React particularly well.
On top of that, you don't know how much plagiarism went into this. It could be line-for-line an exact copy of someone else's code. A human can copy and paste code, too.
An interesting proof of concept would be a larger application with a multi-component UI, some business logic, and a database access layer. Almost everything that you could sell would have those qualities.
1. https://github.com/localjo/CalendarMapApp/blob/main/componen...
In An interview with Steve Wozniak by Jessica Livingston cured my AI anxietyI mean, I built this app demo with no iOS development experience in a few hours, rather than the week it would have taken me otherwise.
https://github.com/localjo/CalendarMapApp
In An interview with Steve Wozniak by Jessica Livingston cured my AI anxietyShow HN: I made a non-trivial iOS app with GPT-4 in just a few hours
After being inspired by your responses to the Ask HN thread yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35299071), I decided to see if I could use ChatGPT to make a functioning app. I picked a random project idea out of my Notebook of Amazing Ideas, and spent just a couple of hours using GPT-4 to build it. I've never built an iOS app before, and even if I made something like this as a web app (my usual job), I would expect it to take at least a week. My process was basically 1) Ask ChatGPT to write some code 2) Copy and paste the code into the right files (this took a little bit of React knowledge on my part). 3) Run the code and paste any errors back to ChatGPT and ask it for suggested solutions. 4) Repeat.
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