[darthbanane]

I'm in the same boat I have yet to find an actual use case for chatgpt beyond a google/stackoverflow search that uses the same variable names as my code.

In several occasions it has produced code that took me longer to fix than just reading the documentation and in almost all of those cases it couldn't help me find the issue and I actually had to read the documentation anyway (it took just seconds to pinpoint the missing clue).

Something it seems really good at is unix commands (regexes, awk expressions, pipes and bash intricacies) so I do use it a fair bit for that.

[unshavedyak]

I use it (GPT4) to explore ideas. Come up with names, explore domains i'm unfamiliar with, etc - all while assuming everything is wrong and i need to validate everything. Which is basically the same as Google/etc. I just use it as a frontend for Search, generally.

I don't use it to write anything concrete, i have not found it to be good at that. I also use FastGPT (Kagi's GPT) as a .. faster search frontend. FastGPT fails to find stuff frequently but it also is so damn fast it feels faster than me searching+clicking_link+skimming_page.

I also like ChatGPT for exploring APIs which i may not know, but can easily validate. It's wrong often, but when i can validate it's not a big deal, and what i get out of it is the ability to Q&A. I find API documentation frequently frustrating because while i prefer documentation, i frequently don't know how to get to my answer. Documentation often feels like i need to read the entirety of everything before i can reliably get any answer, and frankly i'm impatient. GPT gives me a more interactive exploration of content. It either knows the answer, or can often point me in the direction to find it myself.

All this is to say ChatGPT & friends have not revolutionized my work. Hell during my day job i rarely use it because it's a domain i know well. But i do have the belief that it helps me enough to justify the cost, currently.

[seba_dos1]

Yeah, I can see it being "worth the cost", especially since the cost isn't high. It surely does not "transform" or "revolutionize" the way programmers work though; unless programmers in question were simply thoughtlessly assembling snippets from StackOverflow anyway.