This is getting more common. I have already had people try to tell me how something works from a chat gpt summary. This would have led to us taking a completely different direction… 5 minutes of reading the actual docs and I found out they were wrong.
Now at a new company i have caught several people copy pasting gpt code that is just horrendous.
It seems like this is where the industry is headed. The only thing i have found gpt to be good at is solving interview questions although it still uses phantom functions about 50% of the time. The future is bumming me out.
Like people who post "here's what ChatGPTx said" instead of their own answer. Quite literally, what is the point?
However, I don't think it's really bad for the technical industries long term. It probably does mean that some companies with loose internal quality control and enough shiftless employees pasting enough GPT spew without oversight will go to the wall because their software became unmaintainable and not useful, but this already happens. It's probably not hugely worse than the flood of bootcamp victims who wrote fizzbuzz in Python, get recruited by a credulous, cheap or desperate company and proceed to trash the place if not adequately supervised. If you can't detect bad work being committed, that's mostly on the company, not ChatGPT. Yes, it may make it harder, a bit, but it was oversight you should already have been prepared to have, doubly so if you can't trust employee output. It also probably implies strong QA, which is already a prerequisite of a solid product company.
Normal interest rates coming back will cut away companies that waste everyone's time and money by overloading themselves on endlessly compounding technical debt.
No, the idea is that historically-normal interest rates around the 5-10% mark won't be conducive to free VC cash being sprayed around for start-ups to wank themselves silly over "piv-iterating" endlessly over spamming complete nonsense and using headcount and office shininess as a substitute for useful and robust products.
Yes, it makes the barrier higher even for good products and helps entrench incumbents, but short of a transnational revolution, the macroeconomic system is what is it and you can only chose to find the good things in it or give up entirely.
Now at a new company i have caught several people copy pasting gpt code that is just horrendous.
It seems like this is where the industry is headed. The only thing i have found gpt to be good at is solving interview questions although it still uses phantom functions about 50% of the time. The future is bumming me out.