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ChatGPT offers fast help to coders with questions
As Microsoft announces greater access to ChatGPT, developers see possibilities for coders
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Billy Hurley
23 January 2023
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A question in the Slack channel was stumping field CTO Nick Durkin’s team at the software deliverer Harness: how to tell Microsoft’s application development tool the location of certain .zip files.
To get a bit technical, the Microsoft Build Engine couldn’t find NuGet packages. One employee had a suggestion:
Have you asked ChatGPT? It’s been amazing with nearly all of my code- and infra-related questions.
ChatGPT, the generative-AI bot launched by OpenAI, did, in fact, answer the question—ultimately providing a “decent answer,” according to the asker, one not easily found in available documentation. The automated reply also sent example code-snippets.