How to Write Code with AI

I was an AI skeptic. I had seen other AI products in the past and I was not very impressed with their capabilities. Now I am blown away by what these AI products can do. The two tools that I have been using the most are Chat GPT and Perplexity.

https://chatgpt.com/

https://www.perplexity.ai/

Chat GPT is the most famous of the new wave of AI tools. It provides answers to questions and can write some decent python code. I prefer Perplexity because it cites sources when it provides answers to questions and I find the code it writes to contain less errors. Chat GPT also has a limit of how many free questions you can ask during the day whereas Perplexity does not.

What I like to do when I want to see code output from an AI is ask the tool how it would achieve a certain task. What API calls would it make? What headers would it include? What dependencies are necessary etc. Then I ask the AI tool to write a python script that accomplishes this task using this method.

Users may have to iterate a bit if they run into errors trying to run the script. Reporting errors back to the AI and asking it to tweak the script are necessary. A natural second step in the code writing process is for the AI to add code providing additional logging into the script so that users can trouble shoot.

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