This guy is operating a profitable business, creating value for customers, shipping features, and openly publishing details and learnings about the threats he mitigated. He used ChatGPT to generate scripts to help him throughout this process. I don't know if he's non-technical or if he just wanted to save some time, but frankly he should be commended for his hustle and get-shit-done attitude. These scripts were not determining life or death, or even making business critical decisions - they were filtering bulk data and making his life easier by producing results that are easily manually checkable, but save tons of time either coding the scripts or hiring a programmer to write them.

To me it reads like a great example of where ChatGPT is most useful: as a force multiplier for time-constrained entrepreneurs who have a specific goal and need specialized knowledge for short periods of time (e.g. to write a script). It's now basically free and instant to produce what would previously require a multi-week process of sourcing, hiring and communicating with contractors to write a script that leads to the same end result.

The kneejerk reaction to call this "surprising" or irresponsible, while understandable, gives major "get off my lawn" energy. This is the future and as coders we should support the increased self-sufficiency of non-technical people. If you want to adapt to the change then maybe think about how to improve the process for entrepreneurs of asking ChatGPT to write a script.