Same here. I'm not a developer. I do engineering and architecture in IAM. I've tested out GPT-4 and it's good for general advice or problem solving. But it can't know the intricascies of the company I work at with all our baggage, legacy systems and us humans sometimes just being straight up illogical and inefficient with what we want.
So my usage has mostly been for it to play a more advanced rubber duck to bounce ideas and concepts off of and to do some of the more tedious scripting work (that I still have to double check thoroughly).
At some point GPT and other LLMs might be able to replace what I do in large parts. But that's still a while off.
Pretty much this. Whilst I've never earned more than 20k a month I've a couple of friends who do. And they're fairly miserable despite the money. Same with my friends who earn far less than me or even nothing. It's just a different kind of miserable.
I much prefer what I do now. A job that is sometimes stressful, that I even outright hate on rare occasions, but that is on average fulfilling and fun and lets me go to bed with a clear conscience. All while I still have enough free time and left over money to actually spend the money I earn on things I enjoy.
Now if someone gave me a choice between earning 20k a month or earning nothing a month, I'd still chose the former. I'd rather struggle with the mental issues and stress that come along with it than living in constant fear how I'd pay for my next meal...
But Ideally I'll have built up enough savings to retire early at some point and live off of the interest generated. Best of both worlds.
Same here. Even taking aside the things a smartphone are necessary for like 2FA, it's not like my life was massively different before it.
Instead of browsing the web on the phone screen I instead read a book or a newspaper on the train.
Instead of texting a friend that I'll be 20 minutes late because I missed my connection I instead had to hope that they'd still wait for me at the place we were supposed to meet.
Instead of checking google maps for directions I'd look at the maps hung around the cities or ask someone.
Now all of that might be because I'm an introvert, but I've been listening to music and reading books instead of interacting with strangers since forever. The smartphone just made it so I wouldn't have to lug around several books and a discman.
That said: I absolutely make the exception for work related stuff. There's a reason why I have a separate work and private phone, getting Teams notifications and other work related stuff during my time off can absolutely ruin my evening.
I'm happy for the couple of people that got tangible financial benefits out of it and that weren't already wealthy beforehand, but this isn't exactly a benefit for society as a whole. All the rest has simply failed to materialise in any meaningful way.
There's a ton of different tips and everyone's different. In my case no amount of list making has ever really helped because I still got easily distracted, either by external factors ("Hey, could you have a quick look at this?") or by myself ("Fiddlesticks, I completely forgot that I wanted to do x an hour ago!" repeat ad nauseum)
The meds help me to actually stay focused on a single thing instead of every distraction completely throwing me off and not getting any work done at all because I'm doing 6 things at once and constantly starting them from beginning
I'm reading this while having my mailbox open on my second screen containing various high priority issues that I should _really_ take care of. Ironically the more I have to do, the less I finish.
Luckiyl my adhd meds should kick in in about an hour making it much easier to focus on taking care of things.
So my usage has mostly been for it to play a more advanced rubber duck to bounce ideas and concepts off of and to do some of the more tedious scripting work (that I still have to double check thoroughly).
At some point GPT and other LLMs might be able to replace what I do in large parts. But that's still a while off.