Hey, also an SSE here, do you find that writing code is becoming a grind now that GPT can generally handle most changes within a single context?

I'm having a harder and harder time justifying writing a lot of code myself when faster tools are right at my fingertips

Would love to hear how other SWE's who are using GPT feel about this

I mostly use ChatGPT to write code while I'm playing video games. Cutscene/ load screen comes up and I review what it sent and have it iterate. Then back to games.

It's much slower at producing good code than I am but it's much faster for me to write a prompt than a program, so ultimately it allows me to do two things at once because 'prompt time' is so short I can fit it in between other things.

I don't think of programming as a grind unless I'm working in a shitty codebase, which does happen, certainly.