I’m really loving ChatGPT’s ability to take a natural language request and turn it into code. It’s not perfect but it speeds up the process so I can get down to tweaking and perfecting things. What have you made with it?

Why on earth do they need to know your phone number when you register.

@electrineer Maybe to text a code to ensure you’re you? I signed up using Google SSO.

@stackodev they don't need to know who you are for providing the service successfully.

Well, it won’t be free forever. They’ll eventually have to charge money for it because if it becomes useful magick rainbow money won’t appear to fund it. People will need to have an account with billable information like an address. So they’re probably just establishing peoples’ accounts at the outset. And the design pattern for TFA verification is usually an SMS message.