In many ways it is a glorified copy/paste machine that's faster (in some cases) than using traditional search. That sounds like the most apt description I've h

In many ways it is a glorified copy/paste machine that's faster (in some cases) than using traditional search. That sounds like the most apt description I've heard yet. I have a feeling that's pretty close to spot on. I don't think ChatGPT is going to do much that's very creative or elegant in and of itself, but it can find and c&p a useful snippet for you very quickly. Maybe the biggest advantage of this over traditional c&p though, is that it does have at least some memory and ability to revise the generated code in a "conversational" fashion. IME (which to be fair is limited, see my other comment) that actually does work, at least to a point.