ChatGPT finally allowed me to save time at work. Github Copilot led to an hour or so wasted with missing parentheses in JavaScript code, when it's mistaken suggestion led to otherwise unnecessary debugging.
I've been following AI in programming pretty closely, so I realised that a certain situation at work, which required modifying a Bash script, was well suited for it. ChatGPT solved the issue on the first try, so it saved me a hour or so, leading to a net positive hours saved on the whole.
Still there needs to be a much greater context awareness, on the level of a large code-base of hundreds of thousands of lines, before it can genuinely threaten my job, even as just a junior software developer.
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ChatGPT finally allowed me to save time at work. Github Copilot led to an hour or so wasted with missing parentheses in JavaScript code, when it's mistaken suggestion led to otherwise unnecessary debugging.
I've been following AI in programming pretty closely, so I realised that a certain situation at work, which required modifying a Bash script, was well suited for it. ChatGPT solved the issue on the first try, so it saved me a hour or so, leading to a net positive hours saved on the whole.
Still there needs to be a much greater context awareness, on the level of a large code-base of hundreds of thousands of lines, before it can genuinely threaten my job, even as just a junior software developer.