I Replaced 12 Developer Tools with ChatGPT (Here's What Actually Happened After 30 Days)
<p>I have a confession. Somewhere around day nine of this experiment, I almost quit and went back to my old setup. Not because ChatGPT was bad. Because <em>I</em> was bad at using it. I kept typing half-questions the way I'd type into Google, hitting enter, and getting answers that were technically correct and completely useless.</p> <p>It took me about a week to realize the problem wasn't the tool. It was twelve years of muscle memory.</p> <p>This post is the long version of what happened when
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I have a confession. Somewhere around day nine of this experiment, I almost quit and went back to my old setup. Not because ChatGPT was bad. Because I was bad at using it. I kept typing half-questions the way I'd type into Google, hitting enter, and getting answers that were technically correct and completely useless.
It took me about a week to realize the problem wasn't the tool. It was twelve years of muscle memory.
This post is the long version of what happened when