I've been a paying ChatGPT subscriber for about three or four weeks now. One day I had a few thorny work issues, asked the free version, and it was so good I g

I've been a paying ChatGPT subscriber for about three or four weeks now. One day I had a few thorny work issues, asked the free version, and it was so good I got a subscription. Since then I've asked some about general knowledge, history, religion, geography, politics, other topics of interest. Mostly in English, but some in Portuguese and a little in Spanish. It's extremely good in all three languages. Mostly though I've been asking about random work topics that come up every day. We use a lot of lots of systems, tools at work, and I need to write software to handle diverse areas. ChatGPT cuts right to what I need as far as: (a) general knowledge of tools and what their purpose is; (b) surveys of categories of tools, comparisons between competing offerings; (c) specifics on how to use, configure, program against various tools, query data, change things; (d) questions on best practices and pitfalls. This is mostly in context of macOS, Linux, AWS, kubernetes, observability tools, and APIs for lots of DevOps-related systems. I do lots of coding in Python, I also do a lot of ad-hoc diagnosis of situations. (We have a great DevOps team that manages infrastructure with standard DevOps tools -- my job is to build what those tools don't address so well, and also to help build out future data-engineering efforts.) I'd say my use of Google search to find relevant articles / pages has gone down 70%. One small example today, I wanted to use `jq` to process some `docker ... --format json` output to pull out some data. I don't want to learn the ins and outs of `jq`, I described my problem and it gave me a good template I could adapt. Any time now in scrum or other meetings, if there's any question about something, we often just consult ChatGPT during our Zoom/screen-share sessions. I think generally I have a better sense on how to structure questions and question progressions to get quick answers than some others. I've also found ChatGPT makes up stuff sometimes ... but it's usually close enough. One comfort I have is that, at least for now, ChatGPT can't direct the overall organization of code for the many situations I need to address, so I'll have a job for a while. It does though fill in the knowledge gap at the edges, I don't waste near as much time searching for and reading documentation and examples. ChatGPT usually has good ready-made low-level examples when I need them, and high-level descriptions of tradeoffs and best practices. I'm "committed" to Jetbrains tools, been using them for a long time. Today I began wondering what I might be missing from CoPilot, downloaded the CoPilot plugin for PyCharm (would also work for IDEA, DataGrip, etc.). I couldn't get the CoPilot plugin to log into Github and saw that others have had similar problems in the past ... so I can't use CoPilot yet. Maybe in a week or two I'll have a basis for comparison. (I don't want to switch to VSCode.) EDIT: word choice, minor clarifications