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Here are a few tips that have helped me
- Paste in working code and have ChatGPT create unit tests for the code
- Ask ChatGPT to comment or explain code I paste in i.e. code I find online but can’t understand
- Ask for sample code. This works better if I brainstorm and/or write the code myself then check ChatGPT’s answer. I wrote code to find a nested object in an array, then I asked ChatGPT and learned how to better my code (return a boolean).
- Ask ChatGPT to rename variables. This has been hit or miss in terms of effectiveness. But I always gain ideas from the effective and ineffective renaming.
- Have ChatGPT remove comments. This is simple manual work that is done easily and perfectly by ChatGPT.
- Converting from React class to React hooks does not work that well but gave me ideas and helped me review the old school componentDidUpdate function.
- This extension is a nice way of supplementing Google searches https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chatgpt-chrome-extension/cdjifpfganmhoojfclednjdnnpooaojb
- I like to ask ChatGPT for explanations (i.e. eli5 “explain like I am 5 years old”), examples, and sources.
Overall I am enjoying ChatGPT for brainstorming, searching, and getting explanations. It is not perfect by any means but it is a great tool in my toolbox.
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