I think that's a fair description. While I have not yet found ChatGPT useful in my "real" day job (its understanding of aerospace systems is more than I would have guessed, but yet not enough to be super helpful to me), I have found it generally useful in more commonplace scripting tasks and what-not.
With the caveat of, I still need to understand what it's talking about. Copy-pasting whatever it says may or may not work.
Which is why I remain dubious that we're on the road to LLMs replacing software engineers. Assisting? Sure, absolutely.
Will we get there? I don't know. I mean, like, fundamentally, I do not trust LLMs. I am not going to say "hey ChatGPT, write me a flight management system suitable for a Citation X" and then just go install that on the plane and fly off into the sunset. I'm sure things will improve, and maybe improve enough to replace human programmers in some contexts, but I don't think we're going to see LLMs replacing all software engineers across the board.
With the caveat of, I still need to understand what it's talking about. Copy-pasting whatever it says may or may not work.
Which is why I remain dubious that we're on the road to LLMs replacing software engineers. Assisting? Sure, absolutely.
Will we get there? I don't know. I mean, like, fundamentally, I do not trust LLMs. I am not going to say "hey ChatGPT, write me a flight management system suitable for a Citation X" and then just go install that on the plane and fly off into the sunset. I'm sure things will improve, and maybe improve enough to replace human programmers in some contexts, but I don't think we're going to see LLMs replacing all software engineers across the board.