I manage a number of development teams, and I don’t get to write much code anymore, but I was asked to urgently build an integration.

The team lead I was going to assign the task to was offshore, and not yet online, so I put the URL for the documentation into ChatGPT premium, and it spat out a working solution.

My team lead was a bit perturbed and created a more enterprisy solution with factories and DI (more out of pride than necessity), but my original code was production ready.

I’m not going to be firing anyone just yet, and certainly not my senior people, but I can see a lot of grunt-level work going away.