I am a 14 y experienced sw engineer and 6 years experienced entrepreneur. Today, ChatGPT 4 does 80% of the coding for me.
Today it wrote two blog posts and generated the artwork and SEO tags for it.
Recently ChatGPT put together a thorough research on what’s the best available solar power station on the market for my niche application. It saved me a day of research.
In one year I will be a better promoter, will have better tools, and the AI will be quicker and more powerful.
There’s absolutely no way back from this.
BTW I pay for copilot too, but it helps very little compared to my blatantly suboptimal ChatGPT copy + paste + prompt workflow.
I have maybe 40 years experience of software development in every language conceivable from assembler to Visual Basic.
ChatGPT4 does 50% of my coding for me. And 90% of finding my stupid errors.
There was a function I had a couple of days ago that had some gnarly SQL in it and it now needed to return two variables instead of one. I just looked at the code and sighed because of the effort I knew it would take to refactor the SQL and the surrounding code.
Then I pasted it into GPT and wrote half a sentence on what the changes were and it spat out 100% perfect version of exactly what I needed.
One of the only downsides is that GPT's data is out-of-date, especially as I'm working under some tools that only really came out since its cut-off. So I often have to adapt its output.
Today it wrote two blog posts and generated the artwork and SEO tags for it.
Recently ChatGPT put together a thorough research on what’s the best available solar power station on the market for my niche application. It saved me a day of research.
In one year I will be a better promoter, will have better tools, and the AI will be quicker and more powerful.
There’s absolutely no way back from this.
BTW I pay for copilot too, but it helps very little compared to my blatantly suboptimal ChatGPT copy + paste + prompt workflow.