Honestly I think its a step back. This is like saying google translate has made everyone fluent in Spanish. At the end of the day you still need to do some vetting and understanding how code works to effectively use chatgpt. the actual writing of the code was never the hard part of software development. If this thing is only speeding up developers by six months time, then thats kind of a waste of compute compared to just offering computer science classes in schools imo, plus you'd get a much stronger generation of engineers from the latter.
> At the end of the day you still need to do some vetting and understanding how code works to effectively use chatgpt. the actual writing of the code was never the hard part of software development
I completely agree with you on that. Most of being a good software engineer is skills that ChatGPT won't help you with.
But you can't even start to learn those skills if you quit in the first six months because of the vertical learning curve tied to all of that syntax trivia.
At the same time, you can't build those skills without spending time understanding how the syntax works. Its much easier to plan projects when you know how they might actually be built. Otherwise you are faffing in the dark and will probably need someone who actually knows these things to hold your hand through the project.
