So, for which kind of tasks could you consider using ChatGPT or Cloud or Google Gemini or
any other AI chatbot from inside the browser instead of using GitHub Copilot or Cursor
or any other integrated AI tool?
Well, for example for planning applications.
For example, I could be looking to build a REST API with Node.js and Express and maybe
in that API I want to allow users to sign up and log in and then those authenticated
users should be able to create events, register to events shared by others or they should
also be able to update event details or delete events.
That could be one application I want to build and now I can use AI through ChatGPT for example
to ask it which key building blocks I need for this kind of application and how I should
approach building this.
Now you could absolutely also ask something like this in GitHub Copilot chat or the Cursor
IDE chat and chances are high that you would get a meaningful answer.
Nonetheless, those integrated AI tools are optimized for coding.
So in my experience, though that may of course change over time, but in my experience you
sometimes get better responses if you use ChatGPT or one of these other AI chatbots
in the browser.
It also can simply be more convenient to use these tools there.
So you could send a prompt or a question like this to ChatGPT or any other AI chatbot and
hopefully get some helpful response back.
For example, where it tells you that you will need to create a project, that you will need
certain dependencies, in the end reflecting different building blocks you need and then
here it also suggests me a project structure, tells me about the database setup and how
to set up authentication and authorization and even gives me some dummy code even though
I did not ask for it.
It tells me which routes I might want to add and overall this therefore can be helpful
in planning the application.
Now of course the example I gave you here is not an overly complex application.
You will very likely be able to plan something like this without AI, but using AI chatbots
like ChatGPT can be a nice extra check.
It can make sure or it can help you make sure that you're not forgetting something important
and maybe you're even getting some suggestions that differ from what you had in mind and
you can therefore double think about whether you really want to build something in a certain
way.
So ChatGPT and all these other AI chatbots can be very helpful for tasks like this.