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There are plenty of jobs where people have to complete various tasks that are outside of their domain or otherwise tedious on a daily basis. For example, plenty of devs have to set up or change the configuration of remote hosts. Some LLMs are pretty good at generating devops scripts to speed up this work.

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Exactly. Example: maybe 1% of the code I generate is bash. I used to try to memorize patterns, but of the top 20 I'd use each less than once per year. Now, instead of that 1% taking 5% of my time, it takes 2%. It's all "simple stuff", and I can verify it instantly.

I have ~10 similar use cases. So it hasn't revolutionized my life, but it's been well worth $20/mo ChatGPT Plus and $3/mo API calls.

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