Maybe everyone else on Hacker News are all super geniuses who don’t benefit from it, but I’m a developer about 9 years into my career and have found ChatGPT4 to

Maybe everyone else on Hacker News are all super geniuses who don’t benefit from it, but I’m a developer about 9 years into my career and have found ChatGPT4 to be absolutely astonishing for helping me learn new skills and improve my productivity. It helped me figure out the design flaws that were causing me considerable difficulties when writing some generics, and we’ve got a new subsystem in an important product up and running that ChatGPT helped me and the other engineers design. Furthermore I use GitHub Copilot literally every day. The combo of chatGPT for “big picture” discussions and copilot for writing code feels like I iterate faster and learn all sorts of things I wouldn’t dredge up in the documentation, or just wouldn’t feel like I had time for (like using Theories instead of Facts in a unit test and running multiple sets of data through the test, I was vaguely aware of it but just hadn’t done it). I’ve made amazing art for my entire D&D party. I’ve got at least a few hundred hours racked up on Colab Premium renting A100s and generating pictures and iterating until I get something really really nice in an hour or two. Someone offered me $250 to make him a picture using the pretty standard Stable Diffusion toolset after I showed him some of the stuff I’ve made. I don’t see how people aren’t absolutely amazed at what these tools can accomplish, and they’re just going to get better. To be clear, I didn’t buy a single crypto coin and thought Web3 was total snake oil (still do), despite my friend literally making millions of dollars off of Bitcoin. But I think this is a radically different situation and the benefits (at least in the short term to someone like me, who is already technical) seem overwhelming and obvious.