2023: The Year of AI
A personal reflection
The past year was important both for the industry and my personal development. I would like to reflect on 2023 from my personal perspective.
In my professional life
This is the year I started using ChatGPT and other AI tools in my professional career. The way I use search is totally transformed. I remember the time when there was no Stack Overflow. Stack Overflow helped me find solutions to simple problems in programming. It was still kind of useless for hard problems, like bugs in the commonly used libraries and tools. But if I had a simple question, I could find a solution very quickly and “professionally” copy and paste it into my code. Usually, I start my search in Google and then click on an appropriate link. Now, I don’t need to click on anything because, very often, the results are displayed in the AI search at the top of the page. It is amazing how quickly my habits were transformed! I often use specialized AI search engines or ChatGPT directly for more complex tasks. For example, I can write a complex SQL query quickly, but sometimes I struggle to translate it to SqlAlchemy. Now, I can ask ChatGPT to do that for me.
I started using GitHub Copilot around a year ago. Initially, it “hallucinated” a lot, meaning that it would generate a code that used non-existing functions…
