[Nezteb]

I use ChatGPT (with the paid GPT-4 model) for certain things when I'm stuck. I use it to explain/rephrase concepts that I'm confused about. I occasionally generate some anonymized stuff like short code snippets, devops configs, boilerplate, and tests.

Are people using it to pump out full apps and services or what? Anytime I've tried that the result quality is poor, even after lengthy explanations of what I'm asking it to build. Sure, sometimes it saves a little bit of time, but sometimes it also wastes my time by giving me nonsense or never zoning in on what I'm asking for. I don't see how people are becoming so much more "productive" with this, unless they're mostly talking about stuff like non-code written content.

It doesn't help that my company's infosec policies forbid putting any proprietary data or code into these AI tools, hence why I only ever ask for short snippets.

[tmpz22]

Im interested in specific use cases too. Anecdotally I only see people claim huge success or no success from these tools. Where are the dirty war stories? Its been out for about a year right?