Is Prompting the Future of Coding? - Ep. 20 with Nick Dobos

AI & I

Nick Dobos, maker of the #1 programming GPT, on prompt-gramming with AI

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 resolve their questions in real time.

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.

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Links to resources mentioned in the episode:

Nick Dobos: @NickADobos

Grimoire: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-n7Rs0IK86-grimoire

Nick’s website for his experiments with AI: https://mindgoblinstudios.com/

AI-first code editor Cursor: https://cursor.sh/

Open Interpreter: https://www.openinterpreter.com/

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Demo Hume, the empathetic AI voice: https://demo.hume.ai/