The top ChatGPT plugins for developers
One of the cool new features of ChatGPT is you can now install plugins to make the chatbot even smarter. But here’s the problem: there’s over 80 plugins to choose from in the ChatGPT store, so it can be tricky to choose which ones to install. On top of that, you can only run three plugins at once, so you’ve got to be choosy.
To help you out, we’ve tested out the hottest plugins on the marketplace and made a list of the ones that, in our opinion, would be the most useful for developers. Remember that you’ll first need to set up the plugin beta feature before you can access the store or these plugins.
1. ChatWithGit
A relative newcomer on the ChatGPT store, ChatWithGit allows you to search GitHub with ChatGPT to find code that can help you out. It provides a snippet of the code and a link to the actual repository. Needless to say, this is a big time saver when you’re trying not to reinvent the wheel.
It reminds me of the classic joke between developers where one says to the other, "Hey, I stole your code." And the second developer responds with a casual, "No worries, it's not my code anyway." Or in the case of GitHub, “Awesome, thanks for the fork.”
2. Code Interpreter
While this plugin is in closed alpha, it makes the list because it’s a very exciting addition to the plugin library. This plugin makes it possible to run Python code within a chat with ChatGPT, with the option to upload and download files, adjust the code, or have ChatGPT make changes and suggestions.
People are already using it to collate big collections of data. One user uploaded a CSV of every lighthouse location in the US and got it to create a gif of a map of all these locations, all with a single prompt. Ethan Mollick at OneUsefulThing used it to create a bunch of programs that showed off its chops as a potential data analyst. In his words, it’s “starting to get strange.”
According to OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, this Python interpreter is in a “sandboxed, firewalled execution environment, along with some ephemeral disk space.” But many people consider this to be the most exciting plugin ChatGPT currently has on the board.
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