Even when using them to code, I use them as a search engine. Rather than telling them to implement feature X, I clone a repo which has a similar feature and say:

"explore the repo I've cloned at /src/foo and explain how it achieves barFeature. Now look a the project at /src/baz and tell me why it would be difficult to use foo's approach in baz"

I rarely have it do anything novel, just translate ideas from existing projects into mine. Novel work is for me to enjoy coding directly.