--- title: ChatGPT - Prompts for developers | daily.dev description: ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that helps developers in various ways such as writing code, refactoring code, code review and debugging, optimizing code, explaining... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt---prompts-for-developers-fk1uibccv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ChatGPT - Prompts for developers | daily.dev og:description: ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that helps developers in various ways such as writing code, refactoring code, code review and debugging, optimizing code, explaining... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt---prompts-for-developers-fk1uibccv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FK1UIbccV.png og:image:alt: ChatGPT - Prompts for developers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ChatGPT - Prompts for developers **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 4 min read · 1948 upvotes · 75 comments ## Summary ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that helps developers in various ways such as writing code, refactoring code, code review and debugging, optimizing code, explaining code, creating unit tests, adding code comments, creating boilerplate code, and writing regular expressions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@sur\_\_** · 225 upvotes > I dont recommend creating code using chat gpt, its good for small projects, but if you are working with a huge code base. where multiple different files are linked, just use it to validate your code. Also I recommend starting your prompt with > ```bash > Pretend you are a proffesional programmer, you will be tasked to solve a few errors or create some lines of code, Here are the resources you might need (INSERT documentations that might be used like node js) > ``` **@no898** · 13 upvotes > Well the article basicaly says if you want to cook a jasmine rice tell chatgpt its jasmine rice not just rice... **@thr4sher** · 2 upvotes > I think chatgpt is a great boilerplate for everything **@haideralikhan** · 1 upvotes > I don't understand what application is this **@magicmike** · 1 upvotes > This is basic, prompt engineering is yesterday. > > The next level of ChatGPT, is creating a framework, of sorts, with the fifteen hundred words that you have available. That is were the true power lies with ChatGPT. --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt), [#code-review](https://daily.dev/tags/code-review) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt---prompts-for-developers-fk1uibccv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"ChatGPT - Prompts for developers","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt---prompts-for-developers-fk1uibccv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt---prompts-for-developers-fk1uibccv"},"datePublished":"2024-05-18T03:02:54.818Z","dateModified":"2024-05-18T03:02:54.078Z","description":"ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that helps developers in various ways such as writing code, refactoring code, code review and debugging, optimizing code, explaining...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2c1c458d7400dda3fb6c49d6ef28519e?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2c1c458d7400dda3fb6c49d6ef28519e?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Community Picks","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Community Picks","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1655817725/logos/community","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/community"},"commentCount":75,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt---prompts-for-developers-fk1uibccv","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1948},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":75}],"keywords":"ai,chatgpt,code-review","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Community Picks","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/community"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"ChatGPT - Prompts for developers"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt---prompts-for-developers-fk1uibccv","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"I dont recommend creating code using chat gpt, its good for small projects, but if you are working with a huge code base. where multiple different files are linked, just use it to validate your code. 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That is were the true power lies with ChatGPT.","datePublished":"2024-05-22T22:40:54.519Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/FK1UIbccV#c-C1wKHn2ae","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Michael Lindo","url":"https://daily.dev/magicmike","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AAuE7mBvxHOCZ7KGMgPAAjYqz9c6bOddZAfbbqbLOG8O=s100"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}}]} ```