I agree, I've gotten stuff working that simply would have taken too much time referencing manuals. You can just keep asking questions until things start to work. It's rare GPT-4 has given a complex function that fully works, but it has done a great job recommending packages; algorithms;frameworks; commands, answering small scoped problems, answering trade offs, telling me what some github packages are doing under the hood.

Especially working with other languages now is a lot easier, because I can ask to translate between languages I'm familiar with. Same thing with configurations, eg translate this systemd script to openrc.