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So this isn't a real example, it's just something I slapped together now as an example of how I generally use ChatGPT 4.0. In a more realistic scenario, I'd be asking more detailed questions, pasting in my existing code, and asking the AI to write smaller sections (maybe 10 lines of code at a time).
A single chat might run for five or six hours, continuously discussing an individual task I'm working on, and I won't just be asking it to write a bunch code. For example in this case I might spend 10 minutes hashing out the exact contents of the 'Activity' record (or, maybe I already did that a month ago, and I might just paste in an example). I'd also be testing the code as I go and writing some of it myself, occasionally asking questions like 'how do I format a date as 4 Feb 2016' in JavaScript?' or 'this line of code fails with X. Why?'
In those five or six hours, I estimate I'm able to get two or three days of work done (at my level of productivity before I started paying $20/month for ChatGPT+).
I'm also only pasting the code - ChatGPT also explains the code it outputs, and often those explanations are more useful than the actual code.
This is very comparable to the ROI I would say that I've been seeing for my programming work. I feel like a super hero, or a 22 year old on adderall. I know everything I need to do for any project, but between client meetings, executive meetings, business development, meetings with the product team, mentoring, the actual amount of focused time I get is so little. I can offload a huge amount of the "I know how to do this and I'll know if you do it wrong, but please do this for me" to the machine. This past May I took on a task that would have taken a comparable person, probably 6 months, and I knocked it out in 2.5 weeks. If you already know what you are doing, ChatGPT is steroids.