Yeah, that is pretty much the idea. It will raise the bar. This kind of stuff happens in cycles though. Once there was black and white photography, and hand-co

Yeah, that is pretty much the idea. It will raise the bar. This kind of stuff happens in cycles though. Once there was black and white photography, and hand-colouring those black and white pictures with a brush was a popular job in high demand. The color film changed that, moving those jobs to a niche reserved for artists. Some decades later, Photoshop was popularized and touching up photos became a thing again. Something we didn't even imagined that was needed anymore, and now looks trivial, was suddenly on high demand. Some skills were transferred to the new thing, but we can't say people skilled in hand-colouring are good digital image artists though. Not generally. A good hand-colourer might had focused on "never making a mistake" so it doesn't ruin the picture. Now that skill is irrelevant, we have infinite undos. Software development nowadays favors pragmatism and values bit shaving abilities that are hard to hone. Complex solutions for problems are discouraged because it imposes a huge cognitive load on maintainers and refactorings. ChatGPT might change that to favor broad generalist megalomaniacs who are able to come up with solutions involving exotic combinations of algorithms and techniques that would require an army of previous-generation developers to maintain. It might favor large refactorings and rewrites that are commonly frowned up in the current culture so no one thinks about them. I don't actually know, my point is that the skillset might drastically change.