I agree with the exploration aspect of AI. I don't have it create code for me but I have certain longer threads about topics that I think are interesting but would not have approached without it. Previously you would've had to find an entire textbook or class on a subject that may not have been quite what you were looking for if you were just interesting in poking around in a topic to start. Like I have a long running chat about making databases and WALs that I don't think I'd have started if I had to dive fully into a course on writing a database from scratch (if that even exists).