I use ChatGPT (paid GPT-4) as a quick & competent secretary. Mostly for discussion of architecture, bouncing ideas and seeing if it can spot any problems, and f

I use ChatGPT (paid GPT-4) as a quick & competent secretary. Mostly for discussion of architecture, bouncing ideas and seeing if it can spot any problems, and for questions answerable by reading manuals. Stuff that previously meant a lot of manual searching by myself is now a quick question. For code, I use it rarely. Mostly for small snippets, like shell scripts or SQL queries. It makes too many mistakes when dealing with bigger problem spaces and validating its work takes so much effort that I might as well write the code myself. Overall I think it has a significant positive impact on saving me time, even though I still write almost all of the code myself. That's because writing code has never been a significant time chunk of my work. Figuring out what exactly to write is the hard part. Once you can describe it in detail, the actual mechanical act of converting it from English to a programming language is rather trivial.