[nunez]

Legitimate question.

I'm a backend software engineer/consultant/presales dude. While I've seen lots of ways that people have used GPT and other LLMs like it, I personally haven't found any use for it.

I'm comfortable searching Google (or man pages) when I need answers while programming; I'm pretty good at that, actually.

I also don't need help writing stuff (though my writing skills can always improve!)

However, I can't help but feel like me _not_ using GPT for stuff will leave me behind, which I don't want to have happen.

Is anyone else in a similar boat? If so, how have you used GPT to stay current?

[janalsncm]

It has replaced a lot of stackoverflow for me. If it’s a “how to do X in Y language” ChatGPT is pretty good.

[thatxliner]

I was converting a cURL invocation to a NodeJS fetch function call: https://chat.openai.com/share/784134ea-6c96-4fb7-bd3a-4f3ffa...

It saved me ~5 minutes but that amount of time can really add up.

[quickthrower2]

It is great for get thing done in $language stuff at work where all sorts of programming languages are used. O(opinionated past devs). Good for powershell or bash scripts where I don’t always know what is possible. Why bust your brain writing an awk command!