> People that are 5-10x more effective at hard skills like programming, well I'm just convinced they weren't a good programmer to begin with and are doing easy problems.
It can make devs 5-10x more effective at certain self-contained programming tasks, even if they aren't 5-10x more effective at their job overall. If you have to write a script in a language you haven't used before and it needs to interface with an API whose documentation you haven't read, and the script isn't mission critical but a "nice to have", GPT can massively shorten the learning curve required to just get this work done. Being a good dev doesn't excuse you from having to pay the cost of learning the syntax of this language and basics of the documentation more thoroughly than if you didn't have GPT.
It can make devs 5-10x more effective at certain self-contained programming tasks, even if they aren't 5-10x more effective at their job overall. If you have to write a script in a language you haven't used before and it needs to interface with an API whose documentation you haven't read, and the script isn't mission critical but a "nice to have", GPT can massively shorten the learning curve required to just get this work done. Being a good dev doesn't excuse you from having to pay the cost of learning the syntax of this language and basics of the documentation more thoroughly than if you didn't have GPT.