Spent the last few days building a basic RSS reader app. It stores a database of feeds and runs a Cron job every day to parse them and save new items to the database.

The code is almost entirely written, refactored and debugged by ChatGPT.

I’m sure there are a thousand issues with it, and I’ll want a real developer to give it a once-over before putting it into the wild, but there’s no way I’d have gotten this far on my own without hitting a hundred brick walls I had no idea how to climb.

I find myself using ChatGPT like a step ladder: it increases your reach.