This question has plagued many new, aspiring and seasoned software engineers. Will ChatGPT replace software engineers? will it become knowledgeable and powerful enough to complete complex projects. Will it be able to develop complex algorithms that take us to the next level of scalable applications past our wildest imaginations.

Once you start to look at the capabilities of ChatGPT and the current limitations you'll see that even if ChatGPT gets better at coding and solving issues through new updates, you'll still need real software engineers. The issue with any technology that makes the job easier than it was before is you'll always need the person that has in-depth knowledge of that system. ChatGPT can and will get better and better through each update and this will increase the pool of new software engineers utilizing this tool. Even with the impressive work ChatGPT can do now there's still often errors in the code when you ask it to do coding tasks. There's errors in algorithms it tries to develop that need to be optimized by a seasoned engineers.

The current state of new software engineers is already very tough with the amount of languages you have to learn, frameworks, data structures and algorithms, git & github etc. Many software developers are not learning the proper fundamentals to have a solid foundation before jumping right into tutorials on youtube. ChatGPT could make this worse as it's going to be eventually doing all the hard work and heavy lifting and will work with frameworks which will really dampen the market what it means to be a software engineer. ChatGPT will likely stay as a tool that developers can use as a head start on a project but with all the complexities and personalized projects that are typically built, you'll still need talented and skilled engineers working together to bring a great product out.