[orwin]

I disagree with that. It's very useful writing boilerplate and documentation, but two third the time I'm in front of a bug I'm to lazy to understand and ask ChatGPT, with context and all, the answer is wrong. I can fiddle with it to reduce that to a third of the time, but in the end, only the questions that are really, really hard to figure on your own are left.

Still, it's way better and more efficient than Google. Less than not being lazy and using my two braincells tbh.

My newest use is

Hello, i' m working on X, I use Y tech, my app do Z and I want to implement W. Can you provide a plan on how and where to start?

[cosmicRobot]

I agree with this. This is my primary use as a new analyst. Weird things that would take lots of time to dig through stack overflow to find, I can find pretty quickly if I feed it the parameters I’m working within, and what I’m trying to get to. Usually it just fills in the gap that Google was doing before, but much better in my opinion.

[throwawayadvsec]

What tech stack(s) do you work with?

[orwin]

Sorry i'm a bit late. Depends. Professionally, its a mix a python, typescript (those i practically never use ChatGPT for, or rather, i use it for questions i usually ask google/reddit/SO), terraform/terragrunt on AWS with some Cisco config and some other hardware stack i don't remember but that require custom terraform providers. I automate the deployment of the hardware, so i think writing custom providers and terraform is roughly a third of what i do and i cannot use ChatGPT for that, its output is way too bad.

Personnally, a lot of bash, C, AWK at the moment (typescript + html/css until last april, now i'm back to the basics). The figure i gave in my post were more for that.

The last time i used it was yesterday, i wanted to hack something on an old game i used steam+proton for. I knew it was a weird Wineprefix, so i asked ChatGPT for it, i might have asked poorly, but after fiddling, i had the response (tbh i had to look how to get the game ID, so in the end i lost more time than not), then when it still didn't work, cause the path was shit, i entered all necessary context in ChaGPT4, and it couldn't find the easy "USER=steamuser" env variable to add before launching Wine. I stopped after 10 minutes, looked into a example Wine cfg file, understood the issue and fixed the problem myself.

I mean, it's probably good for really basic stuff, so it could have helped me when i was starting, but 80% of the stuff i code automatically without really thinking about it, and when i have to stop to think, ChatGPT isn't helping. Also tbh, VSCode is really, really good and fix my old, time-consuming task of "what's this argument again?"