Maybe. To be fair, I had the same opinion yesterday. This morning I decided to take a real look at how I could use chatgpt to augment my programming, and once I started with it with an open mind, I now think it's going to take away much of the drudgery I have come to loathe so much about programming. I used to like delving into libraries and frameworks and learning all their details - I thought that was what 'learning about programming' was. Now, 20 years later, I hate those aspects with a passion - having to look up the idiosyncrasies of a function call again, because there are dozens of ways of using it but all slightly different, or piecing together another dull specific use case. This morning I had chatgpt generate 4 fully fledged functions for me, each doing a highly specific task that would have taken maybe 20 or 30 minutes each to piece together the specific API's, and one of them using a Python package I had never used before, didn't know of and would have had to read the getting started tutorial before I could have used it on my own. Then all I had to do was write the glue to call those functions in the right order and with the right arguments and boom that was it. Plus the code was more elaborate and coherent than it would have been had I have to do it manually.

One example is not a guarantee, but the experience made my day, and probably my week. Which is why the pop_back() thing made me worry :)