I generally agree that they are garbage at producing code beyond things that are trivial. And the fact that non-techies use them as “fact checkers” is also disturbing because they are constantly wrong.

But I have found them to be very helpful for certain things, for example I can dump a huge log file and a chunk of the codebase and ask it to trace the root cause, 80% of the time it manages to find it. Would have taken me many hours otherwise.