At the risk of exposing my pom-poms, it's not the writing of the code or the design of the systems that I find the current batch of AI useful for.
Probably the biggest thing that GPT does for me these days is to replace google (which probably wouldn't be necessary if google hadn't become such hot garbage). As I say this, I'm made aware of the incoming rug-pull when the LLMs start spitting SEO trash in my face as well, but right now they don't which is just the best.
A close second is having a rubber duck that can actually have a cogent thought once in a while. It's a lot easier to talk through a problem when you have something that will never get tired of listening - try starting with a prompt like "I don't want advice or recommendations, but instead ask me questions to elaborate on things that aren't completely clear". The results (sometimes) can be really, really good.
For me the principal benefit of ChatGPT is it helps me to maintain focus on a problem I'm solving, while I wait for a slow build or test suite or what ever. I can bullshit about it without annoying my coworkers with Slack messages. And sometimes I'll find the joy reveling in the chatbot's weird errors and hallucinations.
I suppose my lunch is about to be eaten by all these people who will use it to automate the software engineer job away. So it goes
Probably the biggest thing that GPT does for me these days is to replace google (which probably wouldn't be necessary if google hadn't become such hot garbage). As I say this, I'm made aware of the incoming rug-pull when the LLMs start spitting SEO trash in my face as well, but right now they don't which is just the best.
A close second is having a rubber duck that can actually have a cogent thought once in a while. It's a lot easier to talk through a problem when you have something that will never get tired of listening - try starting with a prompt like "I don't want advice or recommendations, but instead ask me questions to elaborate on things that aren't completely clear". The results (sometimes) can be really, really good.