it is useful in a lot of ways but it doesn't "solve" software like people think it does. it's just better google search.

It's augmenting software developers in a way that's badly needed. I personally hope it stays that way, but people are always pushing the limits and there's still a lot of improvements that could be made to these systems.

Why do you think it is badly needed?

Not arguing with you, just curious what you're thinking here.

I'm thinking of the stories I've read about developer burnout. Then tweets where people say developing is 90% debugging and 10% writing code. These systems would hopefully reduce burnout, shorten troubleshooting times, and identify problems before code is rolled out to Production.

It seems to me in the short term we'll be doing more debugging and even less writing as we copy & paste suggestions and try to figure out why they aren't working.

That's like copy & paste from a Stackoverflow answer without understanding what the code does. Except that it could happen more often, but devs need to be trained not to do this without understanding.

I guess how does this keep devs from having to write code if they aren't using the code that's provided by ChatGPT?

I think in the end it might cause more debugging. And I mean hard debugging with things being subtly wrong and not trivial to fix or correct.

This.

When people made a computer play chess decades ago they also felt the exact same way...

The AI revolution is always "2 years ago trust me bro"