ChatGPT is hilariously incompetent... but on a serious note, I still firmly reject tools like copilot outside demos and the like because they drastically reduce code quality for short term acceleration. That's a terrible trade-off in terms of cost.

I predict that, within the year, AI will be doing 100% of the development work that isn't total and utter bullshit pain-in-the-ass complexity, layered on obfuscations, composed of needlessly complex bullshit.

That's right, within a year, AI will be doing .001% of programming tasks.

"look i registered my own domain name all by myself!"

the domain: "localhost"

Engineering is about trust. In all other and generally more formalized engineering disciplines, the actual job of an engineer is to provide confidence that something works. Software engineering may employ fewer people because the tools are better and make people much more productive, but until everyone else trusts the computer more, the job will exist.

If the world trusts AI over engineers then the fact that you don't have a job will be moot.

I just used copilot for the first time. It made me a ton of call to action text and website page text for various service pages inwas creating for a home builder. It was surprisingly useful, of course I modified the output a bit but overall saved me a ton of time.

I think the correct response is "Wow. Has your mom seen it? Send her the link."

AI is only as good as the person using it, like literally any other tool in human existence.

It's meant to amplify the workload of the professional, not replace them with a layman armed with an LLM.

This AI thing will certainly replace my MD to HTML converter and definitely not misplace my CSS and JS headers

You don't need to convince the devs, you need to convince the managers.

Tbf I don't really wanna do ops work. I barely even wanna do DevOps. Let me just dev

Wow, there is a lot of pearl-clutching and gatekeeping ITT. It's delicious!

On a more serious note, ChatGPT, ironically, does suck at webdev frontend. The one task that pretty much everyone agrees could be done by a monkey (given enough time) is the one it doesn't understand at all.

Don't forget that GPT4 was getting dumber the more it learned from people.

These morons are probably going to train AI wrong so job security for the next 100 years.

The only thing ChatGPT etc. is useful for, in every language, is to get ideas on how to solve a problem, in an area you don't know anything about.

ChatGPT, how can I do xy in C++?
You can use the library ab, like ...

That's where I usually search for the library and check the docs if it's actually possible to do it this way. And often, it's not.