I continue to find ChatGPT and the like to not be very helpful for writing more than a little bit of code, and even there, it's mostly helpful in areas where it's with APIs that I'm familiar with, but don't use enough to be fluent in. I also find it useful in suggesting alternatives for solutions I already have, but even there it's still pretty limited (e.g., my attempts to get it to write better ArchUnit tests that don't include my test code that didn't include the "obvious" solution).
I find it much more useful in clarifying my understanding (and therefore my explanations) of concepts. For example, I've been thinking a lot about Mental Models vs. Heuristics and where the line is. For example, are "DRY" and "SOLID" mental models or heuristics? How about "OOP"? Or, more specifically: do I model my countdown timer with pause support as a "bag of seconds that get consumed" or as "end time gets postponed by amount of pause time".
