You're right, I don't get it. I eagerly signed up for the Bing waitlist and it was a fun novelty for a few hours, having it write limericks, but when it comes to work the best it can do is paraphrase documentation and insert errors. It doesn't and cannot understand the proprietary and complex problem domain I deal with at work, and while it might be able to generate REST boilerplate for me to fill in.. the filling in is the hard part. Emacs already makes boilerplate generation extremely simple.. simpler than explaining the problem to a bot in English and then checking its work, for sure.
It's pretty good at finding examples in documentation and explaining them, I guess, which is helpful for trivial things but my work isn't trivial anymore.
Heck, maybe I'm just lost on this because I haven't used SO very much in recent years.. I'm mostly looking at documentation directly, or very often reading internal code that has no documentation
How is ChatGPT supposed to help me, especially if I don't send it any sensitive information?
So yeah, I guess I don't get it