[conwy]

If you're looking to maximise employability / pay scale, maybe you can do some small side projects, just enough to showcase curiosity/open-mindedness.

Examples:

- Build a useful bash script using ChatGPT prompts and blog about it

- Build a text summariser component for your personal blog using Xenova / Transformers.js

- Build an email reply bot generator that uses ChatGPT prompt with sentiment analysis (doesn't have to actually send email, it could just do an API call to ChatGPT and print the message to the screen).

Just a few small examples and maybe a course or two (e.g. Prompt Engineering for Developers) should look great.

However I question how many companies really care about it right now. Most interviews I've done lately didn't bring it up even once.

But that said, maybe in a few months or year or so it will become more essential for most engineers.

[whynotkeithberg]

Do you really think a useful bash script using ChatGPT prompts is worth blogging about? I'm genuinely asking. I've been wanting to start my blog back up I was always primarily a sysadmin, although I've had to move more into DevOps to keep with the times and instead of being more an SRE/sysadmin like I used to be I'm now DevOps meets sysadmin where I'm not helping write our companies application but I do everything else from CI/CD, monitoring, log dashboards, to creation of infrastructure using terraform, ansible etc.

So I don't want you to think my question was being sarcastic... I'm genuinely curious if you think this sort of thing would be a useful or interesting thing to blog about or only in the cases of a resume building thing?

[conwy]

I think this skill could save time in a very rushed business environment.

A while back I wrote a prompt to build a script that runs git-reflog to get a the list of distinct authors. After a few small tweaks I got it roughly working. This took about 1 hour. Writing it myself would have definitely taken multiple hours, especially having to learn the details of git-reflog.

But that said I think it's mainly resume-building. ChatGPT isn't going to overall transform our productivity.

[bigtunacan]

Did you get something done in an hour that would have taken multiple hours or not?

If you did then it transformed your productivity.

[ketzo]

I think programming-with-chatbot is still such a new skill that a concrete, well-written example is a very useful document!