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I have a hunch that using ChatGPT might be a skill in of itself and it doesn’t necessarily hurt or help any particular skill level of developers.

In previous replies in this thread the claim is it helps novices compete with associates or associates with seniors but in reality, it will probably help any tier of skill level. You just have to figure out how to prompt it

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One hundred percent. Most people I’ve seen dismiss ChatGPT simply refuse to engage it appropriately. It’s not likely to solve your most complex problem with a single prompt.

Asking the right questions is such an important skill in and of itself. I think we’re seeing to some extent the old joke about engineers not knowing how to talk to people manifest itself a bit with a lot of engineers right now not knowing quite how to get good results from ChatGPT. Sort of looking around the room wondering what they’re missing since it seems quite dumb to them.

They use GPT 3.5, prompt it with "Write a javascript login page" and then look at the code an go "Damn, this thing is stupid as fuck".

I had a friend jokingly poke fun at me for the way I was writing ChatGPT prompts. It seemed, to him, like I was going out of my way to be nice and helpful to an AI. It was a bit of an aha moment for him when I told him that helping the AI along gave much more useful answers, and he saw I was right.

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