That's about my experience.
The worst dev on my team uses ChatGPT a lot, and its facilitated him producing more bad code more quickly. I'm not sure it's a win for anyone, and he's still unlikely to be with the team in a year.
It allows a dev who doesn't care about their craft or improving to generate code without learning anything. The code they generate today or a year from today is the same quality.
Part of it is that it allows devs who lean into overcomplicating things to do so even more. The solutions are never a refinement of what already exists, but patch on top of patch on top of patch of complexity. ChatGPT is not going to tell you how to design a system, architect properly, automate, package, test, deploy, etc.
For the team it means there's a larger mess of a code base to rewrite.
The worst dev on my team uses ChatGPT a lot, and its facilitated him producing more bad code more quickly. I'm not sure it's a win for anyone, and he's still unlikely to be with the team in a year.
It allows a dev who doesn't care about their craft or improving to generate code without learning anything. The code they generate today or a year from today is the same quality.
Part of it is that it allows devs who lean into overcomplicating things to do so even more. The solutions are never a refinement of what already exists, but patch on top of patch on top of patch of complexity. ChatGPT is not going to tell you how to design a system, architect properly, automate, package, test, deploy, etc.
For the team it means there's a larger mess of a code base to rewrite.