I've found ChatGPT very useful as a "desk buddy" who I can turn to and ask about obscure things. It's quickly replacing my Google/StackOverflow in my workflow.

I've found ChatGPT very useful as a "desk buddy" who I can turn to and ask about obscure things. It's quickly replacing my Google/StackOverflow in my workflow. I was working on a .pkg MacOS installer and could not figure out how to get my background image @2x.png to render on a retina display. Turns out I needed to create a directory with the .imageset extension. My attempts at searching for a solution online never led me to this, but ChatGPT immediately knew what to do when I described my problem. It's also tremendously useful as an interactive manpage. I've found it's much faster to ask ChatGPT how a complicated CLI tool works than trying to read the dense --help output to find what I need. It can even have a conversation about A* pathfinding, and how best to implement it with different nuances. It's crazy. I wonder how employers will handle this trend, which is happening so quickly. Is it OK for an employee to get advice on their work from ChatGPT? Is it OK to commit AI-generated code? Is it OK to show internal source code to an AI to help them find a bug or refactor it? There are security implications here, and ethical questions. I think most sophisticated companies will only adopt this kind of tech when they can self-host it, or at least have some kind of guarantee that their employees are using a dedicated, isolated model. With that said, I'm sure many people are already making heavy use of this for their work (as are students). It's already an out-of-control phenomenon.