Guidelines for using ChatGPT as an assistant in software development

ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI company. It collects data from the global internet from the past until September 2021. Then, AI system uses the collected data for deep learning to understand natural language so that it can respond to users in natural language.

ChatGPT tries to understand the users’ questions, searches for the answers or processes the existing information, then outputs the answer to the users. If the users still have more questions, they can ask questions related to the previous questions. It’s like talking to a human with interaction between each other.

ChatGPT Program

As a software developer, you can apply ChatGPT easily to your software development. By just sending your inquiry, ChatGPT will process the question, search for the answer, and then answer your question in natural language.

ChatGPT can be used to support works of software developers in various fields as well as solving problems that arise in system development as follows:

  1. Using for programming. You can use ChatGPT to write code in different programming languages. For example, you can ask ChatGPT to generate codes for encryption and decryption in Java.
  2. Converting source code from one programming language to another. You can ask ChatGPT to convert from Java source code to Python or other languages.
  3. Solving problems or errors of the program. If any function has problems, ChatGPT can help you to analyze bugs from the source code of that function.
  4. Code commenting. ChatGPT can offer comments on the source code written by other developers to shorten the time to understand or study the operation of each function.
  5. Explaining steps of work. For example, if you want to upload source code to GitHub, ChatGPT can suggest how to do it step by step.
  6. Suggesting functions to manage dates, numbers, or variables.
  7. Giving advice in selecting tools for software development. You can ask ChatGPT what tools should be used for development in case you want a system that requires fast processing, or which database you should use to store billions of records.

These are just some parts of ChatGPT’s capabilities. You can apply ChatGPT in as many ways as you think. However, the quality of the answer depends on asking questions. If you ask clear questions, you will get the answers you want.

However, after getting the answer, you should check if it matches what you want or not. If it doesn’t match, you can ask more questions to get the answer that most closely matches what you want and can be utilized.

Example of question and answer on ChatGPT

Conclusion

ChatGPT is a powerful tool for software developers who want to utilize large data processing capabilities to increase their work efficiency, such as writing source code, suggesting optimal solutions as well as solving problems that arise during software development.

However, ChatGPT can be a good adviser if you ask the right questions. ChatGPT is like a person who has a lot of information that you can ask any questions you want, but you must communicate clearly with ChatGPT what you want to know.

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