It's going to be one of those things like the internet where over the next decade it will have massively impacted every aspect of life but no one will fully appreciate how much everything has changed.

It's already replaced a bunch of search for me. I don't use it to make my own work, but I use it as a really fast q/a tool for straightforward answers absent of ads and clickbait

I paid for ChatGPT for a few months and finally cancelled yesterday. As a code generator it’s a frustrating assistant that gets it wrong most of the time. I guess that’s good from a selfish developer point of view.

I paid for it and Copilot, so yes I have. The code it generates is either great or totally wrong, more often the latter than the former.

In my experience talking architecture through with GPT4 has increased my productivity and enjoyment of development, and certain things like explain this typescript error to me or generate an elaborate mermaidjs chart for me that shows x,y,z have all been delightful.

That said, I've spent hours this week trying many different AI enhanced IDEs including cursor and I cannot for the life of me get anything to correctly set up jest in a TypeScript project - next.js or just vanilla TS... every single one does not correctly handle the Babel / tsconfig issues.

What I'm saying is I still think we'll see improvements over time but it's not quite there yet. I still prefer Codeium for completion and to take some boilerplate from gpt4 and modify it to my purposes.