New 42-day free trial Get it now
Smarty
RecommendedAmbiguous address matches: What they are and why compliance teams should careFebruary 3, 2026Smarty's January 2026 release adds parcel boundaries, provisional addresses, and smarter international geocodingJanuary 27, 2026Smarty customers avoid USPS rate limitingJanuary 20, 2026

Use ChatGPT to write better code, faster

Adam and Ryan recently demonstrated how to build a functional application using ChatGPT to generate large amounts of code. Read all about it here!
Updated October 29, 2025
Tags
Programming blog tagProgrammingWebinar blog tagWebinarAddress data blog tagAddress dataCustomer experience blog tagCustomer experience
Adam and Ryan recently demonstrated how to build a functional application using ChatGPT to generate large amounts of code. Read all about it here!

In our recent webinar, we brought together two of our software engineer experts, Adam Charlton and Ryan Cox, to demonstrate how to build a working application using ChatGPT to generate most of the code.

We know what you're thinking: ChatGPT can't take our jobs; we've tried.

This is wonderfully true. ChatGPT can pull together useful bits of information but still needs to be guided and curated by a human, preferably one with subject knowledge.

The exact working scenario given by Adam and Ryan was:

Write code in Python that takes an address and delivers the ten closest addresses to that address. The use case is you have a client that like your services, and you want to advertise to all of their neighbors.

On the first run, ChatGPT did deliver code that, when plugged into the terminal, pushed out an address. Unfortunately, it was only the exact address that was input.

One of the critical points that Ryan and Adam spoke about is knowing how to debug the code that ChatGPT spits out.

Here are some tips they gave us in spot-checking code from ChatGPT.

ChatGPT only has knowledge through September 2021: When you ask ChatGPT to write code referencing data on a website, know that it’s pulling that data from the 2021 version of that website. When we asked it to look at the Smarty code, we had to reference SmartyStreets, our company name, in 2021.

Be very specific, or ChatGPT will guess: We asked ChatGPT to use a Smarty address API to solve our problem, but we weren't specific about which one. ChatGPT then pulled the first API it found that met the criteria, and we had to adjust our request to find the specific API needed.

If you want specific data to be referenced, feed that data to ChatGPT: While its general knowledge is several years old, you can feed ChatGPT reference code or data to pull from in its next response. There's, of course, a risk of giving it proprietary information, so be aware of that.

ChatGPT is not deterministic: You can ask the same question of ChatGPT several times and get a different answer each time. This can cause problems if you're leaning on ChatGPT too heavily.

Watch the full webinar recording for even more helpful tips and to see exactly how Adam and Ryan were able to get a working application in only 30 minutes.

If you want to follow along with them, you can get 1,000 free lookups with a free account today.

Subscribe to our blog!
Learn more about RSS feeds here.
Read our 5 address validation use cases ebook now
Read our recent posts
Ambiguous address matches: What they are and why compliance teams should care
Arrow Icon
If you’ve ever run into an address that seems to exist in more than one place, congratulations—you’ve discovered the world of ambiguous address matches. They’re the Schrödinger’s cat of location data: valid, yet potentially two distinct locations. This blog will focus on a few key things: What are ambiguous address matches?Why ambiguous address matches matter for compliance and customer serviceHow to handle matches with address ambiguityWhy you should inform your customers of ambiguous address matchesOur final thoughts on ambiguous address matchesWhat are ambiguous address matches?An ambiguous address match occurs when an entered address resolves to two or more valid locations with slight but meaningful differences.
Smarty's January 2026 release adds parcel boundaries, provisional addresses, and smarter international geocoding
Arrow Icon
OREM, UT, Jan 27, 2026—Smarty®, an expert in address data intelligence, today announced a three-part release designed to help organizations turn messy, fast-changing location data into operational confidence. The January 2026 bundle introduces: 1) A brand-new parcel dataset, 2) Expands provisional address programs into core U. S. products, and 3) Upgrades Smarty’s International Geocoding engine—giving organizations more precision and more usable signals for automation at scale. “Address data is never ‘done.
Effective Slack communication: The Smarty way
Arrow Icon
Slack is incredible—until it becomes overwhelming, distracting, and hard to manage. Every company eventually reaches that moment when the friendly hum of collaboration turns into a full-blown notification blizzard. Messages pile up. Channels multiply like rabbits. Every ping feels urgent. Suddenly, your team’s deep-focus time feels like an optional side quest, not part of their job. At Smarty, we’ve lived this story. We’ve also learned how to fix it. Now we want to help other organizations create Slack environments that feel lighter, faster, and dramatically more supportive of real work.
Next Post
Previous Post

Ready to get started?

Schedule Demo