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by TrackerFF 1286 days ago
Having toyed around with ChatGPT for a week now, I already use it as a sort of "code assistant", much like how copilot works.

How good the results are, depends on how good you are at constructing the queries. It's a bit like using google - some people have only the most basic knowledge, while others can find pretty much anything, because they're really good at writing queries.

Now, imagine how it's going to be 10-15-20 years from now? The future models will probably cull a chunk of devs., while the good devs will be even more efficient.

But who knows, maybe this will actually help some of the mediocre programmers to focus their energy on other things? Like taking on other roles? Take me for example - I'm no rock-star programmer. I see programming as a means to an end, it's just a tool. I would much prefer to focus on the actual business logic and features of a product, maybe even long-time strategy. If most of the tedious coding was removed, that would make me happy.