Here's my anecdote: I use ChatGPT, Gemini (web chat UI) and Claude. Claude is a bit more convenient in that it has access to my code bases, but this comes at the cost of I have to be careful I'm steering it correctly, while with the chat bots, I can feed it only the correct context.

They simplify discrete tasks. Feature additions, bug fixes, augmenting functionality.

They are incapable of creating good quality (easily expandable etc) architecture or overall design, but that's OK. I write the structs, module layout etc, and let it work on one thing at a time. In the past few days, I've had it:

  - Add a ribbon/cartoon mesh creator
  - Fixed a logical vs physical pixel error on devices where they were different for positioning text, and setting window size
  - Fixed a bug with selecting things with the mouse under specific conditions
  - Fixing the BLE advertisement payload format when integrating with a service.
  - Inputting tax documents for stock sales from the PDF my broker gives me to the CSV format the tax software uses

Overall, great tool! But I think a lot of people are lying about its capabilities.