I needed a quick utility window in the Unity editor to see what animations could fire animation events and what those were.
I’m somewhat familiar with the editor API, enough to know what to Google and roughly where to go in the docs. I don’t do it enough though to really learn it beyond that point. So I’d estimate I could spend maybe one and a half hours, counting research, coding something, testing it and then context-switching back to what I was working on.
On a whim I asked ChatGPT (GPT-4) if it could do it for me. Formulating the prompt took a few minutes. I included a short bullet list of what I wanted and told it what Unity version I was on.
In almost an instant, it did it. I copied the code into a new file, added it to my project and it worked.
Time from idea to the first working version was around 10 minutes.
I asked for some minor refinement and then asked how I could extend it. It gave me starting points and taught me something new about Unity. All that slow doc searching, Google searching and forum-trawling was gone.
It’s like having my own personal dev assistant.