for me chatgpt is 10x more efficient than searching stack overflow. I use it daily and helps speed my dev so much. It's super helpful for tedious stuff like date transforms (pst to utc) or random array filters (ex filter array of objects on this field and remove duplicates) etc.

My most recent query from yesterday ways "iterate over a nodejs array, the array has 10 or less elements. The increment should be in chunks of two. Stop when the index is bigger than 10, or when there are no more elements"

I can figure this stuff out myself too, but with chatgpt, I can query it and come back in 20 seconds and use whatever the output is. 95% of the time is correct, and the rest I can just quickly fix it myself. Plus i can ask follow on questions and refine it even more. This stuff would have taken me 5+ mins looking over stack overflow and then coding it and testing it. Plus ChatGpt handles edge case so I don't have to worry about them.

The efficiency is much much better than SO. I can't imagine going back to Google or SO for any coding questions. I only wish they kept the service up more during the day time. It's available in the morning or at night, but most afternoons it's a hit or miss.