I can just laugh and wish people following such advice "good luck". The hardest part is to do software maintenance, debug production and etc, and knowing the internals of a language and read its stack trace is critical.
The people who think that ChatGPT will make knowing a language irrelevant are the same types who think you can "learn to code" in a couple months and suddenly be able to do everything an experienced developer can (lots of businessy managers). Or that by having wikipedia you know everything and that being able to read out a wikipedia article in a discussion is the same as knowing about something. Or that they can go to a foreign country with google translate and have real conversations with people.
In all cases, there is some shallow version that you really can do and claim success, but it should clearly be not real or particularly useful, and this is just another thing on the list.
Exactly. I can code using ChatGPT. But I have to know what I want and make sure that its doing what I want and how I want. I can ask "Write a class to do this and that", "refactor this code", "extract this code in smaller methods", "write specs for this class", "parallelize this piece of code" or even "write a Dockerfile for that", but i still have to make sure that the code makes sense, and often, it doesn't. So how i see it is: Me as senior developer can leverage ChatGPT to increase my software development throughput. But one must be software developer, specialist in a language, framework and the infra and environment where you deploy it, to have success using that.
