Why ChatGPT for developers?
Personally, I believe that one of the most mind-blowing capabilities of ChatGPT is that of dealing with code. Of any type. We’ve already seen in Chapter 4 how ChatGPT can act as a Python console. However, ChatGPT capabilities for developers go way beyond that example. It can be a daily assistant for code generation, explanation, and debugging.
Among the most popular languages, we can certainly mention Python, JavaScript, SQL, and C#. However, ChatGPT covers a wide range of languages, as disclosed by itself:
Figure 6.1 – ChatGPT lists the programming languages it is able to understand and generate
Whether you are a backend/frontend developer, a data scientist, or a data engineer, whenever you work with a programming language, ChatGPT can be a game changer, and we will see how in the several examples in the next sections.
From the next section onward, we will dive deeper into concrete examples of what ChatGPT...
