Building a Personal Web Page in Hours, Not Days, with GPT-4

Published on: May 22, 2023, 8:45 a.m.

If you've been following my posts, you'll know I'm an avid supporter of ChatGPT and GPT-4. Eager to test GPT-4's coding capabilities, I had the idea to revamp my outdated personal web page. Having been well-acquainted with Django and Bootstrap, and being somewhat of a Python aficionado, I thought these tools would serve me best for this project.

Inquisitively, I sought advice from GPT-4:

Unbeknownst to me, it's possible to generate a static website from your Django project using a tool like django-distill, and subsequently host it on GitHub Pages. This revelation presented itself as the perfect solution.

Without further ado, I submitted my first prompt to GPT-4: "I would prefer to build it in Django and Bootstrap." To my delight, GPT-4 provided a detailed outline on how to initiate this task:

Curious and eager to keep the momentum, my subsequent prompts were centered around the next steps:

Interestingly, GPT-4 was able to assist me in real-time debugging. Whenever I encountered issues, I simply pasted the error messages into the prompt, and GPT-4 would provide me with solutions:

Furthermore, I found GPT-4 extremely helpful in refining my content, by condensing verbose paragraphs into more web-friendly formats:

In the end, I felt a profound sense of gratitude towards GPT-4 for enabling me to create my personal webpage with such ease and efficiency.

Conclusion

The coding and debugging capabilities of GPT-4 are simply astounding. Had I started this project from scratch without GPT-4, it would've taken me five times longer. In my opinion, GPT-4 is a clear contender to StackOverflow, and I foresee myself utilizing GPT-4 substantially more in the future.

GPT-4 has the potential to significantly boost software productivity. I can't stress enough how beneficial it would be for anyone involved in coding. It's like having StackOverflow, but with the perfect answer every time.

Beyond that, GPT-4 offers valuable recommendations on which services to use. Prior to this project, I was oblivious to the existence of django-distill and the ability to generate static pages.

This is undoubtedly the future of coding, and there's no turning back.

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Link to the GitHub repository