Since its launch at the end of 2022, many are the users who have found the Artificial Intelligence of OpenAI, ChatGPT, a real utility. ChatGPT is not only able to answer any question, but is also a fantastic tool in the field of programming.
The first thing that we must be clear about is that we are not going to create an application from nothing by giving ChatGPT some simple applications, since it is necessary to have programming knowledge. If we are programmers or are working on it, this Artificial Intelligence is ideal for improving our workflow as a programmer, deriving simple tasks to ChatGPT instead of looking for them on Stack Overflow.
Next, we show you the most common uses for which ChatGPT is an extremely useful tool in the field of programming.
Generate basic code
If we ask ChatGTP to create an application code that is capable of extracting and analyzing data from a certain source and compare it with another to later implement the code in a larger one, the AI will return code that will not have neither feet nor head, although at the beginning of the feeling of being the ideal tool to create any application from scratch and without having any kind of knowledge. As a tool to perform basic tasks, ChatGPT is ideal, but not for complex tasks that require special dedication.
Translate code to other languages
ChatGPT has been trained in many programming languages so it is capable of translating code into other languages, as long as we are talking about simple things. In addition, it is also capable of updating an outdated code to a more modern one in the same language.
format data
OpenAI’s AI is capable of organize in tables all kinds of formats that are in plain text format and where all the data that we need to organize in a table is found. We just have to paste the data that we have extracted from, for example, a file in CSV format into the application and wait for ChatGPT to analyze and interpret all of them in a table.
Generate filler content
ChatGPT is an ideal tool to generate filler content on different formats (.csv, .json, .sql among many others) data that is also capable of structure and that we can use in practically any programming language. Padding data is basic in the field of programming to be able to generate placeholders when necessary.
Other useful features of ChatGPT
In addition to the more common uses of ChatGPT in the field of programming, this AI-powered tool is also a great way to:
- Fix errors. Another interesting use of ChatGPT for developers is the ability to fix badly written code. Errors as simple as a comma, a semicolon, a bracket where it shouldn’t, can make us waste a lot of time until we find them.
- Optimize code blocks. Optimizing the code that we want to use to perform a certain function is one of the utilities that ChatGPT makes available to developers to improve its performance.
- document the code. Documenting the code of an application is a fundamental part, a process that we can do almost automatically with ChatGPT.
