Would have to disagree. I've writing code for +25 years and counting, a good portion is critical infraestructure code. I've reached the title of chief-expert and quite frankly gets difficult nowdays to find people who can answer my questions or at least help explore possible routes to solve them. ChatGPT is like a buddy that is always available and sitting next to you for a good technical chat.

Sometimes it comes up with really good techniques that are different from my usual approaches, other times is plain wrong and I'm correcting it.

I am more productive with the ChatGPT in my life. Whenever stuck on some weird error, instead of googling I paste the log and discuss with the bot what can be going wrong there. We can talk about pointer analysis, performance bottleneck comparisons. Could I do it all on my own? Sure. However it is boring and quite certainly would require 10x more time to perform all calculations on my own.

In the end of a day it is just another tool. Brings advantage when used properly.