becoming 'that new guy' who uses extensive chatgpt to learn

Not sure if anyone can relate but here goes:

I've started using chatgpt extensively to get up the learning curve on spark & python specifically (coming from a reasonable sql base). What started off has mere curiosity morphed into full blown multi-hour gpt sessions querying and re-querying code with heavy in-line formatting to help me understand what does what within a library or specific transformation.

It's been great, but I've started to pick up a bit of scorn from the more 'traditional' data engineers in our business. I don't actually mind too much, but this category of assisted learning is quite incredible, and strange to think it didn't exist even 6-months ago.

It makes me wonder about the future of this space given how fast things are moving 😅

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