--- title: I asked Chat GPT to build a To-Do app — Have we finally... description: Chat GPT asked Chat GPT to build a To-Do app - Have we finally met our replacement? Are we about to be replaced by an AI, again? We saw the release of GitHub... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-asked-chat-gpt-to-build-a-to-do-app-have-we-finally-met-our-replacement--v7vzrd1qs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I asked Chat GPT to build a To-Do app — Have we finally met our replacement? | daily.dev og:description: Chat GPT asked Chat GPT to build a To-Do app - Have we finally met our replacement? Are we about to be replaced by an AI, again? We saw the release of GitHub... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-asked-chat-gpt-to-build-a-to-do-app-have-we-finally-met-our-replacement--v7vzrd1qs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/v7vzRd1QS.png og:image:alt: I asked Chat GPT to build a To-Do app — Have we finally met our replacement? 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. # I asked Chat GPT to build a To-Do app — Have we finally met our replacement? **[Bits and Pieces](https://daily.dev/sources/bit)** · [@deleteman](https://daily.dev/deleteman) · 5 min read · 119 upvotes · 24 comments ## Summary Chat GPT asked Chat GPT to build a To-Do app - Have we finally met our replacement? Are we about to be replaced by an AI, again? We saw the release of GitHub Copilot in October of 2021 and the whole dev community went crazy again. But are they right this time around? ## 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. **@fullstacker** · 14 upvotes > I asked Chat GPT to build a to-do app and it told me to 'stop procrastinating and just do it myself.' Guess it's not ready to replace us humans just yet! **@bendevweb** · 4 upvotes > it is clearly the dev news of the week! 🥇 **@zoubithras666** · 3 upvotes > I don't see any difference from googling. > I mean if you wanna build an app you can google and find the code easily, the same thing you do with chat GPT **@javascriptdude** · 2 upvotes > 💥💥 **@casee** · 2 upvotes > I would wager that to-do apps are one of the easiest things for ChatGPT to do as it's probably one of the most example rich "apps" on the web. > > You can guide it, but once you're out of its statistical comfort zone, things get a lot weirder and you have to watch it carefully for mistakes (which might be hard to spot if you don't fully understand the code is spewed...). > > It's another tool we could use, not one to replace us. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#bots](https://daily.dev/tags/bots), [#firebase](https://daily.dev/tags/firebase) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/i-asked-chat-gpt-to-build-a-to-do-app-have-we-finally-met-our-replacement--v7vzrd1qs) ```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":"I asked Chat GPT to build a To-Do app — Have we finally met our replacement?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-asked-chat-gpt-to-build-a-to-do-app-have-we-finally-met-our-replacement--v7vzrd1qs","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-asked-chat-gpt-to-build-a-to-do-app-have-we-finally-met-our-replacement--v7vzrd1qs"},"datePublished":"2022-12-08T13:11:09.457Z","dateModified":"2022-12-08T13:11:09.334Z","description":"Chat GPT asked Chat GPT to build a To-Do app - Have we finally met our replacement? 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