I’ve personally been asking chatGPT design decisions about databases and app structure. I give it some starting ideas and ask it what would be the best path to achieve some stated goals. It gives me the options and tells me what would be the best path.
I’ve asked experienced developer friends and they say that they would likely have similar discussions among themselves. Except now chatgpt is doing that.
Right, I'm not disputing that it can be an extremely useful tool. I often use it myself to bounce ideas or to ask an open-ended questions that search engines are failing to answer, with mixed results.
My belief is that there's a huge rift between GPT-n being an extremely useful tool (which it often is) and it being able to outright replace your job.
What is the difference between me using a search engine and using a machine learning tool? The knowledge is external to me in both cases, I am just the interface between business requirements and the technology being used.
If I use an AI to use external knowledge faster then how is this supposed to threaten me? If I am a garbage scavenger and I get my resources from digging in the landfill, then wouldn't a robot that detects the valuable waste make me wealthier? I still have to pull it out myself. Ok next iteration there is a robot that can take the garbage out the land fill but not to my house. Ok next iteration is a self driving robot that can also transport the garbage to my home where I sell it. Ok next iteration the robot sells my garbage.
The real question in this situation is, does the robot cost me more than I get out of it?
I’ve asked experienced developer friends and they say that they would likely have similar discussions among themselves. Except now chatgpt is doing that.