I find ChatGPT excellent for writing scripts in obscure scripting languages - AppleScript, Adobe Cloud products, IntelliJ plugin development, LibreOffice, and others.

All of these have a non-trivial learning curve and/or poor and patchy docs.

I could master all of these the hard way, but it would be a huge and not very productive time sink. It's much easier to tell a machine what I want and iterate with error reports if it doesn't solve my problem immediately.

So is this AGI? It's not self-training. But it is smart enough to search docs and examples and pull them together into code that solves a problem. It clearly "knows" far more than I do in this particular domain, and works much faster.

So I am very clearly getting real value from it. And there's a multiplier effect, because it's now possible to imagine automating processes that weren't possible before, and glue together custom franken-workflows that link supposedly incompatible systems and save huge amounts of time.