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Good first rant. Welcome!
My company is also going nuts with chatGPT. Like now it’s almost a requirement to use it in every single task we’re performing. And if we argue it’s not always helping us efficiently, the response is: well your prompts probably aren’t good enough. We’re even being measured in our use of it since we’ve been set up with company accounts.
It definitely helps in some areas but also sucks in many other areas. So in the end it kind of cancels itself out, and the ultimate gain in productivity is questionable -
Its very good at creating a base of something and if its a common enough problem the solution might even be usable.
But as soon as you have requirements that was not part of its training data its very much less useful.
It has no real understanding and reasoning only predictions.
So I do not see it replace all developers ;)
And used the right way it really does speed up work for any half competent developer. -
Corporate FOMO has reached new levels. It seems like managers haven't realized they will be among the first to go, since their unspecific work is among the easiest to prompt-engineer.
But the system can be used against itself Use chatgpt to interact with user requests, company emails and leadership messages, and focus yourself on code.
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
Just go to GPT and get me the code today!!!
Like wtf why does every non-tech guy thinks GPT is the solution for each problem.
So, a workmate wanted a fullstack system ready in 2 days and argues that its too easy with GPT. I mean yeah GPT helps, sometimes, on frequent rare occasions. But, that can't be the solution to everything, like ask it to setup the whole backend frontend integration, will it? ask it to manage assets will it? ask it to write complex code, it fails, miserably, okay like me but that's the point. Just because random transformers pop up each week containing some random shitty weights (not always agreed) that can't replace a full stack developer. These 'attention' seeking models are as good as another tool, a bit efficient, but at the end of the day its just a tool, all it does is lessen the typing time but gives more errors too. The average time remains the same. And my non-tech manager can't understand he can't do it himself earlier using GPT. Succkkkkkkssss!
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