Thread by @yleflour

🏁 Like a plumber would say, "Let's-a-go" with part 5

This time, I'll focus a bit more on the development side cause that may be why you've come here in the first place 😗

1/13

#chatgpt's been great to pop up new projects (albeit some outdated methods once in a while)

But now that we're getting to the meat of software making, which is actually more than following a gettin' started page, a couple of things are happening

Time for numbering #️⃣

2/13

1️⃣ I need to provide more context more often

Yep, the large data set it's been trained on is not enough. Now it needs to be aware of local context which means:

🔸 Reminding it of folder structure
🔸 Giving files content
🔸 Giving dependencies content
🔸 Fetching it doc

3/13

👶🏻 Let's add two actions
- Copy directory as prompt
- Copy file content as prompt
🤖 Erm, I'll put it there, but I'm unsure
👶🏻 Here's the git list-files so you can fix this. Better be the last time I do it manually!
👴🏾 Narator: "It was"

4/13

Now those prompts are saving me hours 👌

But there is one issue with gpt4 web

it
it is
it is so
it is so damn
it is so damn slow

🥱 Input is ~100 lines. Response is well above that. So it takes minutes before getting my modified file

🤔 May need to change my approach

5/13

2️⃣ One function = one file

Yep, the fastest way to remain productive while still using #gpt4. I'm now doing something I loathe: splitting my code into as many small files as I can.

But it allowed me to implement an efficient "CODE_REVIEW" action 🎬

6/13

CODE_REVIEW is simple. It's like feeding it the content of a file, but it has to respond back with a fix for every "FIX_ME" comment

Works wonder with #gpt4, but #gpt3.5 was left behind at this point

PSA: I know of other models; I'm forcing myself to use #gpt for this

7/13

3️⃣ Fetching dependency context is a drag

#gpt4 works wonders when provided with Typescript typings, but have you looked at those .d.ts files

Well, let me tell you, the webview didn't like it 🫠

8/13

So I had to copy-paste the entire .d.ts, filter out the declarations manually, add a 👇

👶🏻 Here are the typings for "openai"
🤖 Got it
👶🏻 CODE_REVIEW
🤖 Here ya go
👶🏻 👌

If you know me by now, yes, this feels like a new tool I'll need 😘

9/13

But we'll get to that later 🕰

Cause I'm thinking of creating a blog. Gotta spruce up a place for Twitter haters, right?

But I'm not some commoner, and I have some standards on the tooling I need for the job 🎩

10/13

I want my blog

☑️ Markdown for writing
☑️ Custom react components
☑️ A pre-built template
☑️ Pretty code blocks rendering

🤖 You'll want "remark" with "next-blog-starter" as template

Wait up, what's "remark"?

11/13

4️⃣ Focus on the result, not the means

Yep, I just gave #gpt4 a standard. And because I didn't tell it "How", it was free to give me some recommendations

And after vetting remark I can say that it's a pretty good one too. So in the future, I'll try to stay more permissive

12/13

OK, blog is not up yet as it requires a lot more work, and it's definitely not a priority

Although, I might try to get #chatgpt to do a whole lot more to set it up in the future

So If you want to see what's next, you can 🔔 and help me ❤️ that first Tweet

13/13

https://twitter.com/yleflour/status/1638510919281160204