The computer doesn’t understand English, the computer understands code.
I had to make professional use of the computer without an English-to-code translator for 18 years before ChatGPT? 15 minutes of web search replaced with 90 seconds of pasting and fidgeting in a text editor, 13 minutes 30 seconds refunded. You can’t buy time. *Toph voice* Incredible.
I don’t have to read man pages to use command line tools? One-button data management tasks that used to require hours of point-click? I can ask in curt commands for Flask apps and get a rickety prototype in hours????
It can’t return anything load-bearing or profound, just daisy-chaining API runners, and I’m real scared when its fruits end up in load-bearing computer stuff, but man...................