> Try not using natural language and just type what you'd type into Google. You'll get the same results and realize that all of the natural language fluff is totally unnecessary.
I can get similar results with Google sometimes and I can put together what I learned from different places.
But I can get scripts that meet my exact requirements with ChatGPT. Most of my ChatGPT related code is scripting AWS related code and CloudFormation templates.
I’ve asked it to translate AWS related Python code to Node for a different projects and a bash shell script. It’s well trained on AWS related code.
I don’t know PowerShell from a hole in the wall. But I needed to write PS scripts and it did it. I’ve also used it to convert CloudFormation to Terraform
I think you (and kenjackson above) are misinterpreting what I was saying. I'm not saying use Google instead of ChatGPT; I'm saying pretend ChatGPT is Google and interact with the ChatGPT text prompt the same way. You don't need fully formed coherent sentences like you would when talking to a person; just drop in relevant keywords and ChatGPT will get you what you want.
Isn’t that the game changer though that you can use natural language and treat it like the “worlds smartest intern” and I can just give it the list of my requirements?
It’s the difference between:
“Python script to return all of the roles with a given policy AWS” (answer found on StackOverflow with Google)
And with ChatGPT
“Write a Python script that returns AWS IAM roles that contain one or more policies specified by one or more -p arguments. Use argparse to accept parameters and output the found roles as a comma separated list”
> “Write a Python script that returns AWS IAM roles that contain one or more policies specified by one or more -p arguments. Use argparse to accept parameters and output the found roles as a comma separated list”
Again, this is completely unnecessary. This is like in the old days when technically illiterate people would quite literally Ask Jeeves[0] and search for full questions because they didn't know how to interface with a search engine.
A prompt that does exactly what you're asking: "python script get AWS IAM roles that contain a policy, policy as -p command line argument, output csv"
We'll see more of that terse, efficient, style as people get more comfortable, similar to how people have (mostly) stopped using full questions to search on Google. The "talk to ChatGPT like a human" part is entirely a distraction from taking advantage of the LLM for coding purposes. Perhaps more importantly, the responses being humanized is a distraction, too.
At first, when I didn’t specify “use argparse” it would use raw argument parsing
It also thought I actually wanted a file called “output.csv” based on your text and gave me an actual argument to specify the output file that I didn’t want.
There is a lot of nuance to my requirements that ChatGPT missed with your keywords.
Sidenote: there is a bug in both versions and also when I did this for real. Most AWS list APIs use pagination. You have to tell it that “this won’t work with more than 50 roles” and it will fix it.
I can get similar results with Google sometimes and I can put together what I learned from different places.
But I can get scripts that meet my exact requirements with ChatGPT. Most of my ChatGPT related code is scripting AWS related code and CloudFormation templates.
I’ve asked it to translate AWS related Python code to Node for a different projects and a bash shell script. It’s well trained on AWS related code.
I don’t know PowerShell from a hole in the wall. But I needed to write PS scripts and it did it. I’ve also used it to convert CloudFormation to Terraform