by hbroadbent on 2/28/24, 8:37 PM with 0 comments
I'd never built a Chrome extension before, but ChatGPT was able to help me:
- write the entire manifest.json file
- write 90% of the javascript, including hooking into the chrome apis
- navigate around Chrome extensions blocking CDNs by just downloading the entire script I was trying to load (TailwindCSS in this case)
- correctly tweak the behaviour of the extension as prompted
This is the first time I've ever built a Chrome extension and I was surprised at how helpful GPT4 was. I use GPT4 a lot day-to-day at work, but it felt a lot more effective working on this tiny extension. but I guess the small scope of the Chrome extension let it keep almost all of it within its context and it basically nailed everything I asked.
The Chrome extension itself lets you create sharable Amazon cart links, and GPT4 was able to grok the API easily.