Mr_Happy_80 t1_jcte6ug wrote on March 19, 2023 at 12:43 PM

Reply to comment by PotentialSpend8532 in We've had public access to ChatGPT for 3 months now. Has anyone made any actual profitable business or quality thing with it? by eratonnn

> it has easily saved me 100 hours since release

That's the thing people are missing. It's not going to replace everyone, it's a tool that can reduce the hours a project can take. That means people are going to be put out of work in the way CNC machines replaced machinists.

I use ChatGPT to assist with coding on projects and I use it the way I use my CNC machines. It isn't going to do the whole job for me, but if I set it up correctly it will output the result I need that works. If I set it up poorly, with the wrong tools and substandard programs, then it spits out a result that is crap, and I'm to blame rather than the machine.

SwarmMaster t1_jcto2u1 wrote on March 19, 2023 at 2:11 PM

My thoughts exactly. Right down to my cnc machine. It's a tool but the people who already have the core skills to wield it effectively will find great efficiency increases.

ackillesBAC t1_jcu88ty wrote on March 19, 2023 at 4:36 PM

Ya the people scared of it destroying jobs haven't used it.

All those articles saying I made a website with chat gpt, don't tell you that they had to rephrase every question five times, and had to ask 50 different questions. Then cut and paste a bunch of stuff, debug it, yada yada. Someone with the experience likely could have made that site quicker.

Chatgpt is an assistant not a replacement. And I think it works very well to do annoying menial tasks. Like converting things, I've used it to convert, delimited data into a text only human readable table, which can be done with other tools but was very simple with chat GPT saved me 2 minutes of googling then probably signing up for some site, and seeing 20 ads, and getting annoying emails for the rest of my life.