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YesChatGPT · 18 Sep 2024

It provides value to me in that some tasks that previously would take me a whole day now can be done in a couple of hours

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some tasks that previously would take me a whole day now can be done in a couple of hours

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Helped: Tasks that are tricky to write but easy to verify, like visualizations.

… I’ve been using it for about two years now to draft new code, after having programmed for two decades. It provides value to me in that some tasks that previously would take me a whole day now can be done in a couple of hours, maybe one hour of throwing ball with ChatGPT and then one hour of refactoring the code myself. I have plenty of colleagues who have similar experiences, especially when using it for tasks that can be “tricky to write but easy to verify” (e.g. …