I use ChatGPT daily and have been coding for over two decades. I get it to write all the tedious stuff, and it basically writes all my internal tools, scripts and so on. The last big things it wrote for me were:
A macOS SwiftUI app to go through all the localization strings in my apps and show them in a table where I could see missing translations, and interactively translate them… by sending the, back to ChatGPT
Another macOS app to graph Google ngram data for word lists. It was great because I didn’t even need to check whether there was an API for ngrams, I just asked it for the function, then for the code to plot it in Swift Charts
Sometimes I consult it on refactoring problems (eg., this struct has new responsibilities, what would be a more appropriate name? How do you see it fitting into this section of the code?). It’s a great tool and easily worth the money
It almost never writes any “interesting” code, however
A macOS SwiftUI app to go through all the localization strings in my apps and show them in a table where I could see missing translations, and interactively translate them… by sending the, back to ChatGPT
Another macOS app to graph Google ngram data for word lists. It was great because I didn’t even need to check whether there was an API for ngrams, I just asked it for the function, then for the code to plot it in Swift Charts
Sometimes I consult it on refactoring problems (eg., this struct has new responsibilities, what would be a more appropriate name? How do you see it fitting into this section of the code?). It’s a great tool and easily worth the money
It almost never writes any “interesting” code, however