>Then you are asking them to waste time.

Having inexperienced staff gain more knowledge about languages and tooling in the context of the codebases they work in isn't a waste of time.

Sure, for example, I'm not going to explain every function in each library or package that we use, and will point juniors towards the documentation. Equally, I'm not going to say "hey ask ChatGPT instead of just looking at the docs", mainly because ChatGPT's knowledge is out of date and the junior would likely be getting outdated information.

>The first time, I wasted 30 minutes trying to interpret an extremely obscure error message, then asked my colleague, then kicked myself because I had run into the same problem six months ago.

So you weren't learning a new language or codebase, you were working with something you already knew. I don't care if anyone, regardless of seniority, uses GPT or any other LLM or any type of model for that matter to solve problems with. You were able to filter through the incorrect outputs or less than ideal outputs and arrive at the solution that suited the problem best.

How are you supposed to do that when you have no foundation to work with?

I do care about people new to a subject matter using it to learn because of the false positives the likes of ChatGPT can spew out.

Telling a junior to use ChatGPT to learn something new is just lazy mentoring and I'd take that as a red flag for any other senior or lead I found doing that.

Where did I make that claim?

I'm dumb as hell, just have enough brain capacity to be a senior SWE in fintech, which definitely doesn't require you to be some kind of genius.

Thanks for your input, I guess...

Unfortunately I read the whole thing, it's incoherent and you seem to assume the reader of your comment lives inside your head when you make vague references.

>In exchange for this vigilance, you get a zero-cost tutor that answers questions immediately, and can take you down a personalized learning path.

You get a zero cost tutor that may or may not be correct about something objective, and as a student you are supposed to trust that?

I also pay, well my company does, to access GPT-4 and it's still not that close to being a reliable tutor. I wouldn't tell my juniors to ask ChatGPT about issues they are having instead of asking me or another of the seniors or lead engineer.

Code working is not equivocal to the code being written correctly or well. If you're the kind of engineer that just think "oh well it works at least, that's good enough" then you're the kind of engineer who will be replaced by AI tooling in the near future.

If you're learning something new for the first time and you want to verify that it is correct and is up to professional standards how would you check?

FWIW I use AI tooling daily and I'm huge fan of it, not to mention my job has me working closely with an in-house model created by our Data Science & ML team to integrate into our current systems. My concern is with people treating the recent versions of GPT like a silver bullet, which it isn't, and blindly trusting it.

I'm an experienced dev as well but wouldn't use ChatGPT to learn something new whether that be a language or a tool. I like to be confident in what I'm learning from.

Wouldn't use ChatGPT as a teacher given its issues around accuracy and hallucinations. Without having a good understanding of C++ how do you know what it's providing you is correct and makes sense as part of a larger codebase?

Even CoPilot, that has access to the entire repo for context, still chucks out nonsense on a regular basis which looks like the right solution but is far from it.

>Not even the 'creators' so my input is same valid is everybody else.

Not really, and the fact you have to preface your comment with this says volumes about the quality of the content that follows it.

5 Ways You Can Run a SIDE HUSTLE To Make PASSIVE INCOME With AI....

How many times is this article going to be posted on Reddit?

Are you talking about using tooling that leverages NLP or building the algorithms themselves that the tooling is built with?