Mixed
I'd rate them as a wash for most of the work that I do, and losing them would be no significant loss
vunderba on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: If ChatGPT and other AI bots were to disappear, would you miss them?”
Helped: Saving time on cloudformation and nginx tasks.
Got in the way: Severe hallucinations on TTF creation and WTX extensions.
… That said, there have also been occasions when Sonnet/ChatGPT-O1 have hallucinated so badly that I would have actually saved time in the long run by just doing everything manually - scriptable TTF creation , WTX extensions , etc. I'd rate them as a wash for most of the work that I do, and losing them would be no significant loss.