ChatGPT’s Attempt to Replace Developers

Can ChatGPT Really Build a Website?

Eniela P. Vela
6 min readAug 18, 2023
Picture by ZHENYU LUO in Unsplash.

ChatGPT keeps trending almost a year after its release. While it has taken everyone by the storm, it still lacks a human touch. With that in mind, I decided to build a Vue3-based website from scratch using ChatGPT and see how far I can go. The goal? To explore the boundaries of this trend. This article is for educational and entertainment purposes. I do not wish to provoke AI enthusiasts or please web developers.

Why Vue?

React is the most popular framework out of that. However, I decided to skip the trend for this step and go with Vue. I have previous knowledge of Vue and I like the framework. It is easy, neat and clean. You build everything from style to html to script in a .vue file and you are done. No need to get lots of linking css, script and html files. If you are not familiar with Vue, it’s okay. This project is a very basic one so it won’t require much development knowledge. If you have prior knowledge of React or Angular, you will be just fine.

ChatGPT

For this project, I subscribed to ChatGPT-4 because it allows you to add files and has a Code Interpreter. The downside of GPT-4 is that it has a cap of 50 messages per 3 hours.

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Eniela P. Vela

iOS Developer | Technical Writer | Software Developer @ Apple