ChatGPT - How Long Till They Realize I’m a Robot?

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I tried it first on December 2nd... ...and slowly the meaning of it started to sink in. It's January 1st and as the new year begins, my future has never felt so hazy. It helps me write code. At my new company I'm writing golang, which is new for me, and one day on a whim I think "hmmm maybe ChatGPT will give me some ideas about the library I need to use." Lo-and-behold it knew the library. It wrote example code. It explained each section in just enough detail. I'm excited....It assists my users. I got a question about Dockerfiles in my teams oncall channel. "Hmmm I don't know the answer to this either"....ChatGPT did. It knew the commands to run. It knew details of how it worked. It explained it better and faster than I could have. Now I'm nervous....It writes my code for me. Now I'm hearing how great Github Copilot is - and it's built by OpenAI too...ok I guess I should give it a shot. I install it, and within minutes it'
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TryRuby today!

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Evening code fans.

I'm making some progress on a software system that I'm building at work, and I've started to enjoy the process of finding a problem, creating a solution, and writing code to represent what I've come up with. But now I wanna try something new...

I've been hearing a lot about Ruby on Rails in recent times, and I'm highly interested in it at this point. For those of you who don't know, Ruby is an object oriented programming language, but it's different from Java and C# in that it's a scripting language, so it doesn't get compiled down to machine code before it's run. "Rails" is a framework written for the Ruby language that makes it ridiculously easy to create websites in a Model-View-Controller sorta way. Just to get a basic web server up and running requires only 2 super simple commands on the command line!

A Rails webpage differs from ASP.NET MVC (the stuff I'm using at work) in that it doesn't require Microsoft servers to host it - translation : possibility for FREE hosted webpages using services like Heroku. A few popular sites that run on Rails include :

Twitter
Groupon
Lumosity
Shopify
Yellow Pages
Living Social
Github

for a more complete and prettier list, click here.

Frickin' Twitter! Twitter runs on Rails! An open-source (oh yeah, it's open source too! and has a HUGE community for support, questions, and plug-ins & frameworks for anyone who wants to use 'em) web framework runs one of THE most visited site in the world!

SO all-in-all, I was excited about the possibilities, but I didn't know how to get into Ruby. I mean, learn a new language, just like that? Who's gonna teach me? I'm not even a graduate yet! Lo and behold, I found this awesome site called TryRuby.org. It hand holds you through the first bit of learning Ruby, and I mean it HOLDS your HAND! It tells you exactly what to type, and what Ruby's doing when you hit enter. I'm also planning on beginning reading a book on the Ruby language called Programming Ruby 1.9. Hopefully something comes of it. If you're interested in web dev, or find coding fun, click the link above to try it out!

Happy coding.

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  1. Admiral AdneyJuly 12, 2012 at 6:59 AM

    I was exploring for hire ruby on rails programmer and alighted up on your send and i ought declare thanks for dividing such practical information.

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