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Na, the tools suck. I'm not using a rubber hammer to get woodscrews into concrete and I'm not using "AI" for something that requires a brain. I've looked at "AI" suggestions for coding and it was >95% garbage. If "AI" makes someone a better coder it tells more about that someone than "AI".
Then try writing the code yourself and ask ChatGPT's o3-mini-high to critique your code (be sure to explain the context).
Or ask it to produce unit tests - even if they're not perfect from the get go I promise you will save time by having a starting skeleton.
Another thing I often use it for is ad hoc transformations. For example I wanted to generate constants for all the SQLSTATE codes in the PostgreSQL documentation. I just pasted the table directly from the documentation and got symbolic constants with the appropriate values and with documentation comments.