I use ChatGPT almost every day, and I no longer think of it as a search engine or simply a chatbot. For me, it has become a working tool.
I’m building EchtLoft in Germany while also developing my own digital tools for planning and configuring custom glass and steel systems. I use ChatGPT to work through technical logic, code, documentation, product decisions, websites, and real customer projects.
What I value most is that it allows me to take an idea and develop it into a fairly complex working system, even though I’m not a professional software developer. But this doesn’t happen with one prompt. Complex work still requires clear context, verification, control, and many iterations. ChatGPT makes mistakes, and I would never recommend accepting its output blindly.
Still, as a tool for thinking, building and solving problems, it has significantly changed the way I work. I can now take on things that previously would have required several different specialists — or that I might simply have abandoned because they were too complex to build on my own.
That is probably the most important thing for me: ChatGPT doesn’t do the work instead of me. It enables me to do much more myself.
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