That said, asking the right questions is required and that still took a lot of care and attention to detail on my part.
Bottom line, though...ChatGPT is going to immediately eliminate a lot of programming jobs.
“I asked ChatGPT to write some long VBA routines and string together some Excel formulas that I used in some of my spreadsheets and it instantly produced what it took me weeks to develop. “
I asked it for some Blender Python scripts. Took a while to get the right question, but it banged it out and saved me weeks. But it couldn’t resolve a lot of questions.
It doesn’t comprehend when I ask what the air velocity is when you spin a pipe like a baseball bat, but it popped out some legitimate formulas for a subsonic ramjet engine thrust.
It won’t answer diddly when asked to analyze NASDAQ trends.
Useful, but you have to be smart enough to know if it is feeding you GIGO
I've had several interesting experiences with ChatGPT creating contracts and creating program logic. I don't see it eliminating jobs so much as greatly reducing tech debt.
No, it won't.
I thought so at first, but having experimented with it quite a bit, I've come to two conclusions:
One, any serious development work would take so long to 'explain' to ChatGPT that the novel you would have ended up writing would take as long or longer than developing it yourself... and even then there will be bugs and problems all over its code, and
Two, it is useful... for small tasks or for explaining how to use another system (like Azure).