I was recently given a huge task, one that a coder was perfectly capable of handling. From past experience, I’d been able to polish up enormous modules in a couple of hours with a coder. In recent updates, it started to perform really poorly, but I ignored it and relied on it. I gave management a deadline based on my capabilities and past experience with the coder, adding a day’s buffer. It was a very basic task, which I’d written down from start to finish. First, he messed with something I didn’t ask him to. Then he deleted something unnecessary. Then he misunderstood the task and did exactly the opposite of what I’d asked. The first day was already approaching its end, and I was still explaining: don’t touch this, don’t do that… “I didn’t ask you to do this,” “You did it wrong, I explained the task to you in detail” - these were the most common phrases that day. It was the second day, the spare one. That day, I continued to fight with him. The next day I was sent on my way because the task was very important to the customers and had an important strategic role.
After that, I weighed everything up and realized I could have done it successfully by simply asking the GPT and solving the problem manually. I don’t know what happened to this solution, but I’m very unhappy with how it started working. Let my story be a lesson to everyone that you can’t rely entirely on automation, even if this solution has proven amazing in other cases.