I asked ChatGPT to write a WordPress plugin I needed. It did, in less than 5 minutes
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm more than a little freaked out. As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to write a plugin that could save my wife some time with managing her website. I wrote a short description and ChatGPT wrote the whole thing: user interface, logic, and all.
There are implications. We'll get to that in a few minutes. First, let me take you through the experience and what went down.
My wife is the proprietor of a WordPress-based e-commerce site focused on a popular hobby. She also hosts a very active Facebook group for customers of her site. Every month she randomizes a list of names, and then does a virtual wheel spin animation, using that randomized list, for the Facebook group. She has been using a site on the internet that does a fair job of randomizing lines, but charges a bit more than it's worth for exporting the list.
As I watched her struggle to get the randomized names back out, I thought it might be helpful if I wrote a quick WordPress plugin we could install on her site. She's in the dashboard every day, so having that as a tool would be helpful.
