| I’m an experienced dev I’ve held off on some projects (but not others) completely because I needed help but I didn't trust the help to not put in backdoors or compete directly. I also needed to learn some concepts in advance. With ChatGPT it has definitely been a 10x boost because I can trust it not to put in backdoors, at least for its own benefit. Its a great pair programmer, I dont take its solutions out of the box, I walk through them with it and iterate on improvements together. Instead of waiting for a response on StackOverflow and getting into a moderation war in the process, I just ask it and get instant responses that are far better than someone chasing digital karma points. I’m coding in ways I wouldn't have, lots of bitshifting, assembly. I can just ask “how would this same procedure be done in assembly”, “why is the syntax like that”. things that are both hard to ask and hard to google. it predicts what it needs to explain, unprompted, instead of someone online that wants you to prove that you’ll take initiative in scouring documentation and trial and error yourself. these are just some of the ways that its a productivity boost for me, let alone acknowledging the subcontractors and developers I simply didn’t seek out to hire. |
Do you want a dystopia? Because that's how you get a dystopia :(.