Talking about Copilot, not ChatGPT, but it saves so much time when it comes to boilerplate code, naming variables, writing comments/documentation/descriptive error messages. Things that are generally easier to read and verify than to write. The ability to do these things is not where my value lies as a programmer.

I’m curious what job you are doing that you don’t feel chatGPT can help with?

I mean that's kind of silly.

Everyone doing "hard" work, whether it's a software engineer developing novel algorithms or a PI at a lab researching open questions spends at least 80% of their time grinding through operational necessities. Writing tests, writing grants, debugging... nobody is sitting a a chalkboard 100% focused on the bleeding edge.

GPT turns that 80% into 40%. That's a lot!