That’s precisely why. Humans have a long, well established record of making shit up to make themselves feel special. They do it about animals, they do it about other humans, they do it about themselves. Doing it about AI is inevitable.

I’m working on a relatively complex DevOps project right now that consists of over a dozen 10-30 line Python scripts involving JSON and Yaml data wrangling and AWS automation.

I’ve been able to just throw my requirements into ChatGPT like I would give it to a junior dev and it came back with the correct answer 99% of the time with code quality and commenting I would expect from a junior dev. It has an “understanding” of the AWS SDK, Cloudformation, the CDK, etc.

Once it generated code that had duplicate code blocks that were only different by its input. I asked it “can you remove duplicated code” and it did the refactoring.

I’ve also I asked it what amounts to your standard middle school math problems and it solved the problem with explanations

I'm not sure if I should be scared or impressed. Or both.

Both. We live in interesting times.