If I didn’t have Ruby I’d love Python too. But given the choice, Ruby fills my need for a dynamic “get shit done” language and the aesthetics are a better fit for me.

I basically just use ChatGPT as a research assistant to save me the time I would waste searching for ambiguous stuff. As the web has exploded over the last 20 years it’s gotten harder to just get up to speed on the current accepted options for tackling various problems. Now I’m able to use search engines in a much more targeted way to find the specific things ChatGPT has already clued me in about. It’s also a great way to explore a new to me API.

It would take me much longer to coerce ChatGPT into writing the code I want in the way I want it than it does to just type it myself once I know what I want. But it saves me a ton of time exploring options so I can decide what I want. Then I can shift to an iterative debugging session using something like Ruby’s pry or Python’s ipdb (which ChatGPT helped me find when I asked it about pry like tools for Python).