* ChatGPT is revolutionary - honestly, it's genuinely impressive how much of a leap ChatGPT is compared to the attempts that came before it.

* Programmers write a lot of simple code that has been written before - there are genuinely tons of cases of "write a web endpoint that takes an ID, looks it up in a database table, pulls an object through an ORM, and returns a JSON serialization of it." Most programmers? Doubt it. But tons of programmers write CRUD stuff and tons of IT admins do light scripting, and a lot of it is repeated code.

Could ChatGPT do my job? Not even close. But it's still really impressive to me.