[49531]

Going a bit against the grain here I think but: I think tools like GPT-4 and beyond will increase the value of software engineers for companies as time goes on.

Folks building software can be more ambitious with the things they create, and it can become easier to plug in another software engineer to your team if tooling can make them more predictable in their output.

I see people here saying that increased efficiency is going to reduce their team's headcount which makes zero sense to me. I've never been on a team where there wasn't enough work to be done, it's usually a problem of too much work and needing to choose which is most important.

That being said, as someone who's been heavily using GPT-4 in their work and personal projects I feel like the gains are minimal. It's really great when I'm exploring an API I was unfamiliar with before, but for stuff I've been doing daily for years it's really not much help at all. Even places where ChatGPT shines, it takes some discernment to sift through the bullshit.

[marak830]

I've been casually coding to assist my work for nearly 20 years now in various fields. It's helped me a lot recently when it came to blowing off rust when I was trying to use python.

The value I have found from it has been quite high, I have been more confident about being able to offer ideas, knowing I wouldn't have to spend quite as much time refreshing my language skills for languages i have not used in a while.

I agree with your last point,when I first started playing with chat GPT I thought I'd throw some of my already fixed problems and see how it handled them. It didn't have the best of answers (tripping over problems I also had initially) or wasn't much better than what I had already made.