I don’t know much about the ETL industry. Are these ETL jobs for all sort of data? Accounting data? Log data? Getting the data from point A to point B? You mentioned UI. Is the UI so the customer can now move the data around or to visualize the data.?
It's not that chatgpt can do the whole task, it's just that I can do it myself much faster now. Paying somebody to set up a new source that is consistent with our protocol is just too expensive relative to the 1-2 hours it takes me to do it myself now.
I don't think ETL is special at all in this way.
It is also just much, much, easier to learn today. Previously, I might have hired a developer to handle the UI side of a new project. I have about 15 years of experience building ML apps and while I have spent a good amount of time building UI, it just didn't make sense for me to do it myself after factoring in the relearning time.
With chatgpt I can create a really nice, functional, deployed UI very quickly even factoring in learning time, with much less of the frustration, miscommunication and Cost involved in working with other people.