I still think that if your productivity is seriously impacted by chatGPT, you are easily replaceable as a programmer.

I’m curious what job you are doing that you don’t feel chatGPT can help with?

Talking about Copilot, not ChatGPT, but it saves so much time when it comes to boilerplate code, naming variables, writing comments/documentation/descriptive error messages. Things that are generally easier to read and verify than to write. The ability to do these things is not where my value lies as a programmer.

I mean that's kind of silly.

Everyone doing "hard" work, whether it's a software engineer developing novel algorithms or a PI at a lab researching open questions spends at least 80% of their time grinding through operational necessities. Writing tests, writing grants, debugging... nobody is sitting a a chalkboard 100% focused on the bleeding edge.

GPT turns that 80% into 40%. That's a lot!