Using ChatGPT to Write a WordPress Plugin


David Gewirtz wrote a short description of what he needed and ChatGPT wrote the whole thing: user interface, logic, and all.

Not to put too fine a point on it but I’m more than a little freaked out. As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to write a plugin that could save my wife some time with managing her website. I wrote a short description and ChatGPT wrote the whole thing: user interface, logic, and all.

In less than five minutes.

So, yes, I’m a bit freaked by how good the plugin was that I “made” for my wife. But the AI has a long way to go before it’s taking work from experienced developers and writers — as long as clients want the kind of work experienced developers and writers produce. And that, my friends, is something I do worry about.

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