Producing workable code with ChatGPT

As stated before, code from ChatGPT may need a little massaging for it to compile and run. A part of this stems from the way prompts are written, while some of it is due to the way the system was trained. To see the type of code that ChatGPT produces, let’s ask it to create a program that can count from 1 to 10. To do this we’re going to use the following prompt:

Write an IEC 61131-3 Structured Text program that can count from 1 to 10.

After running the prompt, ChatGPT is going to return something like the following:

PROGRAM CountingFrom1To10
VAR
    count : INT := 1; (* Counter variable *)
BEGIN
    WHILE count <= 10 DO
        (* Output the current count *)
        (* Replace this line with your output method depending on your PLC *)
        // For example: Display...