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We built an app live with AI, GitHub, and ChatGPT
I (Dan) was fed up and wants to try out building using only AI. Well, mostly. So I used ChatGPT to help me build an app, then used Github Actions to automate data processing and deployed to Vercel.
✨ See it in action with all deals here
The Stream
See how I build it from scratch, the tooling, the process. It's all there.
The App
The app uses a Github README file as the data source. It's a Black Friday deal directory of sorts, and each PR gets transformed into a new deal entry with it's own page. All automagically.
Thoughts
AI can write the code but you’d be a lot faster if you know some of the basics at least.
It was super interesting to force myself to rely on AI, but by the end I got sloppy and didn’t verify its output that much. Granted, I was feeling increasingly worse 😃
but I think AI code has this effect, once it gets it right a few times you stop checking the output as closely and then all sort of silly mistakes pop in.
that being said, I don’t see how I could have been this fast writing things from scratch, especially when working with services I don’t use that often.
I’d recommend even if you are a good programmer to get comfortable with it and know what it can and what it can do.
I don’t think it’ll replace anybody; but I think those that don’t add AI to their tooling will be left behind and it’ll enable an entire new generation of people to create software. It was fun to build this.