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Boilerplate, test code, and general tedium. Most software just needs to handle IO.

The next time you want to use SQL to compute a rolling sum try asking ChatGPT 4 instead of searching through documentation or search engine results for windowing functions.

Competency at programming along with very good technical communication skills (with a touch of learning how to not hold the tool backwards) and you should find the appeal.



yes. just used Cody to get me on the right path with an obscure postgresql JSON query, it easily saved me an hour of fiddling around.




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