I am reasonably certain that if you had told me 5 years ago that we’d have a system that could reasonably generate conversational text but it often gave wrong o

I am reasonably certain that if you had told me 5 years ago that we’d have a system that could reasonably generate conversational text but it often gave wrong or nonsense answers that seem plausible, my response would have been “that sounds pretty neat”, which is what my response was when I first used ChatGPT a month ago, and is what I started my comment with. At least personally speaking, the goalposts have not shifted. I don’t at all deny that it’s a pretty cool thing, I have found it to be actually really useful to bounce ideas off of, but I guess I was just a little annoyed when I saw (what felt like) a million articles talking about it making engineers useless while the results it generates are actually worse than nothing.