I use it for some coding tasks. I wouldn't use it for something like "Create an Android app that does whatever", but I use it sometimes for tasks like "Write a Python snippet that aggregates a Pandas dataframe like so". It's good for tasks that you're too lazy to write because the code is slightly tedious or because the API sucks (looking at you, pandas 👀), but is easy to verify that the code is correct when it's written.

It's also good for exploratory work when you're working with something new where you don't know what you don't know. It's been helpful while exploring NixOS, because I often don't even know where to begin to approach something. It doesn't matter if it's wrong because I'm going to be analyzing what it outputs even if it's correct, so that I can learn. Yeah, I could RTFM but the docs are scattered around and frequently out of date.

I do all of this in a separate session from any IDE I use. As much as I find it useful at times, I don't like the vibe coding aspect of just passively waiting for autocomplete to pop up with something that is more likely than not to be garbage or even worse, subtly wrong in ways you don't notice until it blows up later. I've seen coworkers run into that issue before.

It's also good for random other tasks where accuracy isn't important, like "Make me a menu with these ingredients that I have in my cupboard and keep in mind these dietary constraints" or similar queries. I think Google is rightly scared about that use case, because they make so much money by encouraging garbage search results that they can slap ads on top of.