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I gave ChatGPT a screenshot of a SaaS dashboard and it wrote the code for it

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Re: I gave ChatGPT a screenshot of a SaaS dashboard and it wrote the code for it

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Though I wasn't a developer then I well remember when I was in college in the early seventies that stidents would take this giant super wide computer printer paper and draw out what their Cobol program would do. They had these pieces of clear plastic that had holes cut for all these symbols. Stuff like squares, rectangles and circles you could trace. So you built everything, form fields, yes/no trees out on paper before you started even writing code.

We are going backward to go forward. If you can feed ChatGPT a photograph to write the actual code isn't this the future of programming?

Re: I gave ChatGPT a screenshot of a SaaS dashboard and it wrote the code for it

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post #2

Though I wasn't a developer then I well remember when I was in college in the early seventies that stidents would take this giant super wide computer printer paper and draw out what their Cobol program would do. They had these pieces of clear plastic that had holes cut for all these symbols. Stuff like squares, rectangles and circles you could trace. So you built everything, form fields, yes/no trees out on paper bef…

this idea could feasibly produce code replicating the gui, but the IO and algorithmic funtionalities, would be in a black box

Re: I gave ChatGPT a screenshot of a SaaS dashboard and it wrote the code for it

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If you are interested in this, you might be interested in the code-based BI tool I'm working on, Evidence (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence)

The experience is a bit more: Start writing code -> GitHub copilot autocompletes -> Dashboard

GIF of it in action: https://twitter.com/evidence_dev/status/1631477155229237248

Previous discussions on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781 - 91 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645464 - 97 comments

Re: I gave ChatGPT a screenshot of a SaaS dashboard and it wrote the code for it

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post #2

Though I wasn't a developer then I well remember when I was in college in the early seventies that stidents would take this giant super wide computer printer paper and draw out what their Cobol program would do. They had these pieces of clear plastic that had holes cut for all these symbols. Stuff like squares, rectangles and circles you could trace. So you built everything, form fields, yes/no trees out on paper bef…

That's flowcharting, not quite the same as sketching out a user interface.