Also, its better in the hands of Senior Engineers who can evaluate answers for correctness, because just like Google/Stack overflow, it can be wrong.
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It is still helpful, but there's a big gap between how helpful it is, depending on the tech.
Ise use ChatGPT and Copilot all day, they're incredible useful! But let's not overstate their power.
As a software engineer/founder, I've used it to write all kinds of advanced queries for Tunnelmole that get all kinds of metrics which previously would have require a Data team. You can write a prompt like "here is my table structure, give me a query to get my abandoned cart rate".
If I ever hire engineers for my project, prompting is a skill I'll be looking for.
If you would do new things, it won't be able to help you.
I highly recommend using it. Think of it as a Google replacement. Every engineer out there uses Google. Instead of spending hours on Google, you can spend a minute or two doing something new with the help of an LLM. They can be wrong, which is why they are better used in the hands of Senior Engineers.
Just let it do something novel instead of something typical stack overflow.
Eg. Nest, a c# library for elastic search, is something it has consistent troubles with because it's not with "and" or "or", but should, must and filter.
But yeah, you won't get into those cases as a junior or doing typical stuff it has been trained on :)
Your comment is an advanced version of "fake it till you make it". That's another red flag when I'm hiring disgustingly highly paid consultants.
Using genAI is fine, using it to bolster a lack of underlying knowledge as I read it, is a red flag.
It cant replace the mindset of a human, but what I'm basically saying here is with GPT-4 and good prompting skills, you can be alot more brave when it comes to new unfamiliar tech. That's an advantage in a fast changing tech landscape.
I can't think of a situation where you'd go from spending hours on Google to being unblocked in seconds. If you're spending hours on Google, then your first dozen search queries aren't turning up the information – in which case, GPT-4 wouldn't turn up the information immediately, either! (It would say something, but it's unlikely to be based on a true story.)