I'm on year two of my journey to become a game developer, i am focusing on programming and if i realize i don´t want to work with games in the future at least i have solid knowledge on how to deal with a broad area of software problems.

I don´t rely on ChatGPT to write any code for me but i do use it whenever there´s a concept i don´t understand and if there´s any problem blocking me from getting forward in my many programming books. Having a tireless teacher/mentor with extensive knowledge and who does not care however stupid question you ask is a very good tool for learning.

I share your optimism.

ChatGPT could also empower individuals who may not have considered learning programming to create practical programs that enhance their daily routines, similar to how VB6 significantly reduced the barrier to entry for developing various applications.

I don't think it will help people learn as much as having to write everything yourself. Sure it will get them productive 10x faster, as a shortcut. You can only get so good at riding a bicycle by watching others ride a bike. Remember that caching issue that cost you hours of debugging? You don't forget that. Maybe the generated code doesn't produce a bug this time, but the 5th or 6th time? It's hard enough to debug code you wrote yourself sometimes, let alone generated code.

In my experience newcomers and junior engineers don't get better by writing more bad code. They learn mostly by 3 methods. 1) finding flaws in their code the hard way (slow) 2) getting careful feedback from more experienced people (has to be done well) and 3) reading better code for a problem they already understand.

I'm not sure GPT helps with any of those yet, as it seems to be more likely to spit out incorrect-to-sortof-okayish so far.

It goes the other way too. I've had it generate code using better methods or features new to me, when I thought I knew the language well.

I'm the hallucinating LLM? And Other Such Crises it has given me.