Like you I found that ChatGPT is not really all that great at coding, but great when you ask it to do very specific grunt work. I'm working on a new database and one thing I found it super useful for is generating test data, I would just tell it: "here's the CREATE TABLE statement, create 50 rows of test data off of it, with all of these specifications: this has to be this, that can only be 1 or 2, yada yada yada.
> Professional developers will recognize that we're talking 50-90% of the LABOR-HOURS that go into software development,
I call it 'dumb coding'. You have a type of programming that requires you to really think, and then there's the type where you just need to write 200 lines of code but you know exactly what to write. If AI could pickup the slack on 'dumb coding' and let us think about 'smart coding', we would all be way way more efficent.
> Professional developers will recognize that we're talking 50-90% of the LABOR-HOURS that go into software development,
I call it 'dumb coding'. You have a type of programming that requires you to really think, and then there's the type where you just need to write 200 lines of code but you know exactly what to write. If AI could pickup the slack on 'dumb coding' and let us think about 'smart coding', we would all be way way more efficent.