Comment by rtpg

I don't have a huge dog in this fight apart from AI advocates being annoying... but I would say that for greenfield projects the interesting thing is that I can get a skeleton of a working iOS app for something simple in like an hour of some copy/pasting stuff from ChatGPT. Instead of spending a good amount of time trying to get through learning material to do it.

It's nice to build throwaway things _so fast_, especially in the sort of fuzzy stuff like frontend where it's fine for it to be completely wrong. And then I can just use my own sense of how computers work to fix up what I care about, delete a bunch of what I don't care about... It's pretty amazing.

For existing projects I have only witnessed garbage output. I know people have success. I haven't seen it.

I have witnessed PMs taking a bullet pointed list of requirements and then use ChatGPT to generate paragraphs of text for some reason. You had the list!