It happens less as I’ve gotten into more senior roles at my jobs, but I’m constantly starting new personal protects and I find that a lot of the annoying grunt

It happens less as I’ve gotten into more senior roles at my jobs, but I’m constantly starting new personal protects and I find that a lot of the annoying grunt work happens in the first few days of the project, which is the part I always dread. Being able to quickly ask ChatGPT for a quick couple stanzas of code for me to get started makes things more fun. Also, I do need to look at server logs all the damn time and I never have fun doing it, especially for some of the more arcane weird stuff (getting an LTO6 drive to work on NixOS was especially irritating). A lot of the less-frequently-used services will often have logs that are really hard to parse. ChatGPT would be worth the price of admission based solely on that. For that matter, build files are pretty much universally irritating to me. Being able to quickly get some personalized Maven or Gradle information really quick has saved me considerable time and effort. There’s plenty of more bureaucratic parts of being a software engineer that it helps me with; I have gotten it to write letters of recommendation for me since those are fairly utilitarian at the end of the day, or to help me format slides in Beamer. I don’t know; again for me it’s been extraordinarily helpful and made software engineering a lot more enjoyable. If I felt like my job were actually at risk from it in the near it’s possible I would have a worse opinion of it.