For me the principal benefit of ChatGPT is it helps me to maintain focus on a problem I'm solving, while I wait for a slow build or test suite or what ever. I can bullshit about it without annoying my coworkers with Slack messages. And sometimes I'll find the joy reveling in the chatbot's weird errors and hallucinations.

I suppose my lunch is about to be eaten by all these people who will use it to automate the software engineer job away. So it goes