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I use AI as a rubber duck, to compliment the rubber ducks on my desk when they don't give enough feedback. So it's use is mostly conceptual, I find that models that provide "thinking" output perhaps more useful than whatever its actual answer is because it asks questions about edge cases I might not have considered.
As for code generation, I hate it. It outputs garbage, forgets things, hallucinates, and whatever thing it writes I'll have to rewrite anyway to actually make it compile.
As I'm fairly isolated at work I think it makes a good pair programmer partner, so to speak. Offering suggestions that I can take into consideration and research heavily if I think it's a good one.