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I don't know you, the language you use, nor the way you use chat gpt, but I'm a bit surprised at what you say. I've been using chatgpt on a nearly daily basis for months now and while it's not perfect, if the task isn't super complicated and if it's described well, after a couple of back and forth I usually have what I need. It works, does what is expected, without being an horrendous way to code it.
And gpt4 is even better
My job involves a lot of shimming code in between systems that are archaic, in-house, or very specific to my industry (usually some combination of the three), so the problems I'm usually solving don't have much representation in gpt's training data. Sometimes I get to do more rapid prototyping/sandbox kind of work, and it's definitely much more effective there where I'm (a) using technologies that might pop up on stack overflow and (b) don't have a set of arcane constraints the length of my arm to contend with.
I'm absolutely certain that it's going to be a core part of my workflow in the future, either when the tech improves or I switch jobs, but for right now the most value I get out of it is as effectively a SO search tool.
Got it. With context, it makes much more sense.
I myself use some of the most widely used programming language ( php and react mostly ) so yhea, there's plenty to be found with those