Boost Your Productivity with chatGPT: Tips and Tricks for Developers

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ChatGPT has been trending all over the last few weeks. This has been for various reasons, but as a developer how can you use it to get a lot out of it?

As a developer, it’s easy to get bogged down by repetitive tasks or stuck on a problem for hours at a time. But what if there was a way to streamline your workflow and get more done in less time? Enter chatGPT, a powerful language model that can assist you in a variety of tasks and boost your productivity. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at how chatGPT can help developers save time and increase efficiency in their work.

 




 

1.Writing Unit Tests

Just copy and paste the piece of code for which you want to write unit tests and wait for the magic to happen. Although you might have to re-check parts of code to match what you want to test, chatGPT does at least 80% of your work. You’ll have the boilerplate, assertions, and mocks generated


2. Getting cli commands

Ever wanted to find the correct way of getting how to check keys that contain a specific pattern in redis using redis-cli? Or how to connect to step-functions with aws-cli? chatGPT again wins here with straightforward answers and explainers.


3. Writing DB queries

If the queries are simply expressable in English, this’ll save some effort by helping you write the queries (But again, if you are good at writing DB queries, you can write the queries in the time you explain them to the bot 😛) — So I’d suggest using this for complex queries which are eating a lot of your time


4. Fixing queries

If you have written your own queries, and are stuck on why it’s not working, ask chatGPT to fix it for you.

 

5. Debugging Error messages

Copy/paste the stack trace or explain the error in simple terms to the bot. See how it gives troubleshooting tips to avoid wasting a lot of time.


6. Writing regex

Many a time, we want to write regexes to create datasets, debug logs, or identify particular patterns. ChatGPT does this with ease

 

7. Writing simple scripts

This is really great and has been something I have been using often. Write a script for connecting to aws sqs using boto3, Write a script for polling messages from sqs and sending them to DynamoDB are a few examples you can try this with

 

8. Writing UNIX aliases

 

9. General queries

Simple queries like getting me the md5 hash of a particular value, writing cron expressions, and alternatives to a particular tool, etc


10. Getting TL;DR

This is a brilliant hack if you are lazy to go through huge paragraphs of content. Copy and paste it into the chat and ask for TL; Dr

Bonus:

ChatGPT can also write blogs and essays really well. Remember the intro to this blog? I didn’t write it 😛

 

This is a crazy tool and can be used extensively in your day-to-day work to enhance productivity 🚀 Keep a tab of chatGPT open and when in doubt ask it first, then google it if no luck. Will save you a lot of time.

Also, chatGPT is not 100% reliable either. You get a lot of outdated responses and some possibly wrong answers. But the advantage that you get using it supersedes the tradeoffs

 

Thanks for reading!

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