I agree, mostly. I use chatgpt like a chat-with-wikipedia. For general knowledge where I was too lazy to google or which is too far hidden in ads ridden adsens

I agree, mostly. I use chatgpt like a chat-with-wikipedia. For general knowledge where I was too lazy to google or which is too far hidden in ads ridden adsense blogs, like "give me an easy recipe for waffles" Here it becomes interesting: I have been coding with Aider and sonnet3.5 for the past 3-4 weeks. I add the few files I need to change as well as whatever structural information (db-scheme or so) and ask it to work on a task, very high level. Yes, I need to offer architectural advice or if I want library X or Y included, but overall, it produces very good (I would say junior level) code. The thing is, it does all the long writing I got tired of over the years. The writing I don't want to do anymore. The CRUD methods. The "change the labels, and names of this to that". The "write a db connector that does XYZ". All the stuff I would normally ask a junior to implement. The output code is generally ok. It's not an eye candy. But it does work generally, maybe with occasional hiccups. But the time saved by prompting it with 2-3 lines and then getting code that normally takes me 30 minutes to convince myself that I really need to do that and then 10 minutes to write is now done in mere 20 seconds. Without much of a mental context switch and without being very taxing on the brain. I am not sure if that counts as "take large amount and make it smaller" based on the extensive code it ingested during training, or if it falls in the category "create more text than I gave it", but it works for me. I would miss it if it didn't work anymore.