I’m not an expert in every area I need to touch. I don’t work at a place like google where there are teams dedicated to solving the same problems across the org which I can rely on.

Getting a simple example roughly tailored to my needs, which I can use as a launching point, is often extremely useful. For example, I encounter scientific libraries with poor documentation and I could spend half my day reading through it or searching stack overflow for a good explanation…or, I can ask ChatGPT4 for a specific implementation using a specific library, then ask it to explain anything I don’t understand.

These tools aren’t solving any real problems for me - they are replacing slower and less responsive systems I already relied on for research and development.