| > is there any stigma with using ChatGPT in the workplace? Any? Sure. At the organization level, there are workplaces that completely ban ChatGPT and will fire you for using it, and there are workplaces that buy all their engineers a subscription to it and actively encourage using it. At the individual level, there are people who make heavy use of it, people who can't stand it, and (most commonly, imo) people who have nothing against it but don't personally find it very useful. Don't use it if your company bans it, but otherwise do whatever you want and maybe check with your coworkers about how they feel towards it before revealing to them that you're using it, just to be safe. > Am I too reliant on it? Is this a “healthy” relationship with AI? Based on what you've said, your relationship with it seems perfectly fine. The concern with coding AIs is that novice programmers will encounter a problem they can't solve on their own, ask an AI to solve it for them, and copy and paste the output without understanding the problem or the solution. In the best case, the code can work but have subtle flaws that won't show up until later. In the worst case, the code doesn't even make sense and you annoy your peers by making them review zero-effort garbage. But if you're just using it to further explore the solution-space of a problem that you already know how to solve in at least one sensible way, there's no danger there and you're just learning and improving. Just be sure to fully understand any AI solution you encounter before internalizing it as a lesson. If we froze all coding AIs right now and prevented them from continuing to improve, I'd think you'd find them becoming less and less useful to you as you gain experience. Obviously, they do much better solving common problems with lots and lots of public solutions already available, and more senior engineers don't tend to need help with those or have much to learn about them. That being said, I know plenty of very capable senior engineers who use AIs to generate repetitive boilerplate (often tests) in verbose/inexpressive languages like Go. Anyway, depending on how quickly these AIs continue to improve, you may never get the chance to "grow out of them" and they might be able to keep teaching you increasingly complex things until they finally replace all of us. Who knows! |