Noticed a real shift in how my team uses ChatGPT over 6 months

Back in January, my team of 5 devs was mostly using it for boilerplate code and regex patterns. Six months later, 3 of them are feeding it entire codebases to debug edge cases and it's cut their bug-fixing time by about 40%. What changed for you all in how you actually apply these tools day to day?

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miles_sanchez1mo ago

Honestly used to think it was just a fancier autocomplete that couldn't really handle complex logic. Then one of my teammates had it trace through a messy async race condition we'd been stuck on for two days and it found the bug in like 10 minutes. That flipped my whole perspective on what it can actually do with real world code. Still not trusting it with security stuff or critical production changes, but I get why people are leaning on it harder now.

matthewkim1mo ago

Ten minutes doesn't sound that impressive if they'd already spent two days staring at it... feels like we're setting the bar pretty low here.

barbara_baker571mo ago

Ten minutes must've felt like an eternity compared to two days of staring at it though...