I watched an extremely senior engineer do a talk last night on his experience trying to just run through an exercise of getting ChatGPT to build the kind of too

I watched an extremely senior engineer do a talk last night on his experience trying to just run through an exercise of getting ChatGPT to build the kind of tool he's built many times over his career. The takeaway at the end was: ChatGPT is more useful for very senior developers. Knowing how to structure your question, what to ask for, what you don't want, actually lead to helpful collaboration with ChatGPT. Where it totally goes off the rails is when you ask broad questions, it doesn't work, then ChatGPT just starts throwing answers against the wall (try this, try that). I get the derision towards "learning prompt engineering," and generally agree, but in this case I think you could also argue that it's understanding (through experience) how to structure thought and questions in the same way you would going into the problem on your own. I've come around to seeing that interaction with ChatGPT as a useful exercise in and of itself.