The last 20 years of my working career were spent programming routers, switches and voice products from Cisco Systems for enterprise customers like Bank of America.
When had to produce a detailed design package for the Bank to approve before converting enterprise sites in their network, everything from switch/router configuration to IP addressing, etc.
If I had the use of a AI tool like Claude AI, the time required to put together a site design package would have been reduced by at least 50% if not more.
In that job we had to use Microsoft Excel extensively, for anyone using Excel, using Excel now with an AI tool installed as an add-on to Excel makes the product like an entirely new product where complex formulas, formatting and data correct as simple as type a simple instruction with only having basic knowledge of Excel.
I use ChatGPT as my “AI Lab Assistant” when developing C++ code for embedded microcontrollers. In addition to very useful tasks like maintaining a lab notebook that will ultimately turn into the documentation package, doing all the charts and graphs, it writes bug-free production-quality code in seconds. And often, after doing so and my confirmation that it compiles and works, the AI will offer to refactor it to improve modularity and structure. Just like a real human! (/s) Best money I’ve ever spent, and I’m told that Claude is even better at code-writing at least. But I’ll stick with ChatGPT because I like it.