“There are several AI tools for developers,” Simon said. “With some of them, you log in to the site and ask for help. You ask for a code review or for code explanations, for example. Other tools can be installed in your editor, and they help you write the code. You’ll try those later, so today let’s start with using a website. I have an account at ChatGPT—let’s use it.”
Simon opened a web page at https://chat.openai.com and entered his login name and password. They saw a simple page with a “Send a message . . .” prompt at the bottom.
“Remember how I told you yesterday,” he started, “that you have to explain precisely to AI what you want from it? It’s not a chatbot where you can start with just ‘How are you?’ We want to get a code review for one of our functions, so we have to explain it that way. It’s recommended that we tell the AI that it has to act as somebody. In this case, we’ll ask it to act as a code reviewer. Then we’ll tell it what we expect from it.”