Is Prompting the Future of Coding?

TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast How Do You Use ChatGPT? I go in depth with Nick Dobos, programmer and creator of coding assistant Grimoire, the highest-rated custom GPT for programming. We dive into how prompting is emerging as a new language for programming and use Grimoire to explore the possibilities that this enables. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. 

You can go from having an idea to deploying a live website in minutes.

All you have to do is prompt Grimoire, the number-one custom GPT for programming, with an image or even a single word about your idea. As you watch the LLM process your request, Grimoire works with a web host on the backend, and just minutes later, your website will be live on the internet.

Grimoire, which has facilitated over 1 million chats, can help you with a lot more than just making websites: It includes a comprehensive guide to learning how to code, from basic concepts to advanced instruction, and serves as a tool for programmers to find answers to their questions in real time. What’s more, the GPT is fantasy-themed. With references to wizards, goblins, and other creatures of the enchanted realm, using Grimoire is like taking a coding class at Hogwarts.

The creator of Grimoire is Nick Dobos, who was an iOS developer at Twitter until Musk bought the company and laid off a majority of its staff. With plenty of free time suddenly on his hands, Nick started experimenting with ChatGPT, and ended up building Grimoire. He’s since emerged as one of the foremost experts in the world on building successful custom GPTs and coding with ChatGPT. 

I think Grimoire is a platform to examine the possibilities that “prompt-gramming”—an emerging way of coding by prompting AI—can enable. I sat down with Nick to explore what this means about the future of programming, the best way to use the coding assistant, and the role AI plays in his life beyond coding. As we talk, Nick uses Grimoire to build a website about coffee and generate a QR code from its URL live on the show.

This is a must-watch for coders, creative people, and anyone curious about how AI is changing the way we interact with computers. Here’s a taste: