I know many people my slightly younger than me are using chatgpt to breeze though university assignments. Apparently there’s one website that uses gpt that even draws diagrams for you, so you don’t have to make 500 UML and class diagrams that take forever to create.

I use it as a search engine for the LLVM docs.

Works so much better than doxygen.

But it’s no secret.

Only used it a couple of times for work when researching some broad topics like data governance concepts.

It’s a good tool for learning because you can ask it about a subject and then ask it to explain the subject “as a metaphor to improve comprehension” and it does a pretty good job. Just make sure you use some outside resources to ensure you’e not being hallucinated all over.

My bosses use it to write their emails (ESL).

I use it as a software Developer but I’m not hiding it from my boss.

Mainly I use it generate me mock data, but also for helping me understand code blocks or if I want to sort some complex data and my head is baffled.

People seem to miss the point in that if I don’t understand software development then ChatGPT is of little help. With the sorting of data, it can give me 90% complete solutions but you have to know what you’re doing to debug it.

I use it to write performance reviews because in reality HR has already decided the results before the evaluations.

I’m not wasting my valuable time writing text that is then ignored. If you want a promotion, get a new job.

To be clear: I don’t support this but it’s the reality I live in.