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It's good for me because I'm piss poor at programming. In my defense, I'm not a programmer or even programmer adjacent. I do see how it wouldn't be useful to a pro. It also has occasionally given me garbage advice that an expert would spot right away while I had to figure out in my own that it was 'hallucinating' again. There's nothing better for learning than troubleshooting, though!
I can absolutely see it getting useful for a pro. It's already a better version of IDE templates. If you have to write boilerplate code this can already do that. It's a huge time saver for the things you'd have to go look up to remember how to do and piece together yourself.
Example: today I wanted a quick way to serve my current working directory over HTTP so I could do some quick web work. I asked ChatGPT to write me a bash function I could stick in my profile to do this, and I told it to pick a random unused port. That would have taken me much longer had I went to lookup how to do that all. The only hint I gave it was to use the Python builtin module for serving http.