GPT won't only writes code, but also documentation and unit tests. It can also read code for you and explain what is going on. Furthermore, even as an academic

GPT won't only writes code, but also documentation and unit tests. It can also read code for you and explain what is going on. Furthermore, even as an academic researcher, most of the code I write is simple boilerplate code that GPT excels at. This means I get to spend more time on the actual code that is hard and novel and that GPT cannot really help with. Back when GitHub Copilot was first released I though very much like you and was somewhat underwhelmed by my experience with it, however since then the state of the art has improved dramatically.