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The world went crazy this week with #ChatGPT gaining millions of users in a space of hours, not years.
It's hard to not be curious when you see all the noise around this beta app built using the Open AI APIs. I was curious, and so I explored this further. The results are astounding, and I rarely use words like this.
AI is the future; let's not doubt this, but I have a few thoughts on ChatGPT.
ChatGPT can certainly deliver results; in fact, there are many examples of ChatGPT building actual SwiftUI Views that render, for example, a Login Screen. However, I also found examples of misleading or incorrect information, so please, do take the results with caution and do further research. I don't want to sound like I am being the "negative person", but we should still continue to take the knowledge and test it.
It reminds me of the days of everyone using StackOverflow, which many people still do, but even with accepted answers, there can be questionable.
However, I was so impressed by Open AI that I build a small library to wrap around the APIs, so it's easier for you to build Open AI into your Swift apps.
Have a great week.
P.S I wrote this, not ChatGPT 😂
🥳 What's New
Open AI - Swift Wrapper Library
I built an Open AI Swift library that helps consume and integrate with the Open AI APIs. Let me know what you think, and feel free to contribute!
🔥 Community News
So Long, Old Friend by Jordan Morgan
Jordan writes about his previous start-up app that was acquired and how it's an end of an era. Interesting story!
What is App Architecture by Jay Wilson
App Architecture is one of those discussions that always brings new ideas and different perspectives from different people, that is why I will always read articles like this.
Getting Started with Xcode Cloud by Kodeco
Learn how to use Xcode Cloud to test and deploy your app on TestFlight. I love these free articles by the RayWenderlich team or should I say Kodeco team.
Custom SwiftUI view modifier for paid app features by Marin
I linked Marin's brand new app last week but this week he delves into how we used SwiftUI View Modifiers to display the premium features inside his app.
Cross-platform API to determine OS version and name in Swift by Marco
Marco will often pick a topic and then expand the bigger picture across mobile in general rather than focussing too much on platform-specific, I love this. So, grabbing the OS version can actually be cross-platform... interesting!
Scaling up JustEat Help Centre on iOS by Andrea Scuderi
JustEat is a huge eatery app based here in the UK, like I mentioned previously, I love reading stories like this because it's real life and Andrea goes into details about the pains and challenges when scaling existing codebases.
💡 And Finally...
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