By skyforbes 
How I turned a terrifying model upgrade into a raise instead of a replacement
ChatGPT-6 can already do most of my job on paper.
It writes service skeletons.
It drafts test cases.
It refactors code that I am too tired to touch.
It explains RFCs at 2 AM with more patience than any teammate.
That is the part everyone talks about.
The part that decides my salary lives in what the model still refuses to touch: tradeoffs, taste, and ownership.
The day I realised 80 percent is not the point
The real shock was not the first time ChatGPT-6 wrote a clean repository and service layer for me.
The shock came when my manager looked at a finished feature and said a quiet sentence that stayed in my head.
Anyone on this team can ship this.
Very few people here can decide whether this should exist at all.
At that moment I saw my work split into two piles.
Pile one: things a strong model can do with enough context.
Pile two: things that change the business and…