Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
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Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
#2Finally catching up with Anthropic.
Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
#3Can this be used to refactor a codebase?
Or is it meant to be used on just a single file?
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#4This is cool, but I wish it were integrated into tools already used for coding and writing rather than having it be a separate app.
This also demonstrates the type of things Google could do with Gemini integrated into Google Docs if they step up their game a bit.
Honestly I’m scratching my head on OpenAI’s desire to double down on building out their consumer B2C use cases rather than truly focussing on being the infrastructure/API provider for other services to plug into. If I had to make a prediction, I think OpenAI will end up being either an infrastructure provider OR a SaaS, but not both, in the long-term (5-10 yrs from now).
Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
#5Can this be used to refactor a codebase? Or is it meant to be used on just a single file?
What's refactoring? Usually when we say refactoring we want to get from one state into another - like making code testable.
Do you want AI to do this for you? Do you trust that it will do a good job?
Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
#6Can this be used to refactor a codebase? Or is it meant to be used on just a single file?
Looks like this beta is single file, like a chat instance. They just added Github integration for enterprise, so that's probably on the horizon
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#7Do they not understand that the example text they are using in the first image is so laughably banal that it makes an entire segment of its potential audience not want to engage at all?
Shoot me in the face if my own writing is ever that bad.
ETA: just to be clear... I am not a great writer. Or a bad one. But this is a particular kind of bad. The kind we should all try to avoid.
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#8Can't wait for more bullshit PRs to our projects! Thanks to AI, anyone can open a PR that gets instantly rejected.
Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
#9It seems sort of weird to keep pushing the chat interface so hard into programming. For 'real' usage, it seems like Cursor or Aider approaches work better, since you end up having AI write code, you manually edit, AI updates further, and back and forth. In a chat interface, copy/pasting updated code gets old fast.
On the other hand, I did have good luck w/ Anthropic's version of this to make a single page react app with super basic requirements. I couldn't imagine using it for anything more though.
Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
#10Finally catching up with Anthropic.
Arguably this is better than Claude projects because you can prompt and edit inline. You cannot with projects. Claude keeps regenerating the artifact.
This is closer to Cursor for writing than Claude Projects.