Ignored using ChatGPT for anything serious for longer than I should admit. Tried it early, got mediocre output, wrote it off as overhyped.

Kept watching people talk about it like it was changing how they worked and honestly assumed most of it was exaggeration. Then a few months later I had a problem I was genuinely stuck on and just threw it at ChatGPT out of laziness than anything. The output wasn't perfect but it got me 70% of the way there in about four minutes. Something that would have taken me the better part of a morning. I went back and looked at what I'd been doing before I dismissed it and realized I'd just been prompting it badly. Garbage in, garbage out, and I'd blamed the tool.