My experience with ChatGPT these last few years is that if used "conscientiously" it allows me to ship much higher quality code because it has been very good at finding edge cases and suggesting optimizations
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at least a 2X productivity gain
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Helped: Finding edge cases and suggesting optimizations for higher quality code.
… Or did it actually save us a bunch of effort in the long run? My experience with ChatGPT these last few years is that if used "conscientiously" it allows me to ship much higher quality code because it has been very good at finding edge cases and suggesting optimizations. I am quite certain that when viewed over the long haul it has been at least a 2X productivity gain, possibly even much more, because all those edge cases and perf issues it solved for me in the initial PR represent many hours of work that will never have to be performed in the future. …