I've wasted too much time trying to do basic tasks with it as well. For example, I argued with it for many messages about something that was blatantly wrong, and it insisted it wasn't (that case it was trying to use order by similarity with an arg to sort by euclidian distance or cosine similarity, but it really didn't want to accept that cosine similarity isn't a distance metric and therefore has to be treated differently when sorting).

My most recent one was where I wasted an hour of time doing something that was literally just 1 line of code. I had videos of all different framerates, and I wanted to make them all 16fps while affecting length and speed as little as possible. It gave me a couple solutions that just straight up didn't work, and then I had to manually fix a ton of things with them, and then I finally had a scuffed and horrible solution. It wouldn't give me a better algorithm, so I tried to make one on my own, when I thought "I should Google if there's a simpler solution". From that Google search I learned "oh, there's literally just a .set_fps() method".

Anyways from using it I feel like it's helpful but not as much as people make it out to be. Honestly, GitHub copilot had been way more helpful because it can auto complete things that just take forever to write but are common, like command line args and descriptions, or pieces of repetitive code.