Comment by BeetleB

> I spent a good part of yesterday attempting to use ChatGPT to help me choose an appropriate API gateway.

If you mean the ChatGPT interface, I suspect you're headed in the wrong direction.

Try Aider, with API interface. You can use whatever model you like (as you're paying per token). See my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44259900

I mirror the GP's sentiment. My initial attempts using a chat like interface were poor. Then some months ago, due to many HN comments, I decided to give Aider a try. I had put my kid to bed and it was 10:45pm. My goal was "Let me just figure out how to install Aider and play with it for a few minutes - I'll do the real coding tomorrow." 15 minutes later, not only had I installed it, my script was done. There was one bug I had to fix myself. It was production quality code, too.

I was hooked. Even though I was done, I decided to add logging, command line arguments, etc. An hour later, it was a production grade script, with a very nice interface and excellent logging.

Oh, and this was a one-off script. I'll run it once and never again. Now all my one-off scripts have excellent logging, because it's almost free.

There was no going back. For small scripts that I've always wanted to write, AI is the way to go. That script had literally been in my head for years. It was not a challenging task - but it had always been low in my priority list. How many ideas do you have in your head that you'll never get around to because of lack of time. Well, now you can do 5x more of those than you would have without AI.