Lately i have been preferring using
phind.com over ChatGPT because there is now a significant disparity in the quality of answers given, ChatGPT seems to regularly provide worse answers now.
I have 15 years of programming experience so i still don't find AI very useful because the answers are at, or below my level of understanding, but rarely above.
Some academic research i've been reading shows that useres with a low skill in the topic they are asking about can certainly benefit from AI, but very skilled people see little to no benefit from it. That's mostly been the case for me.
We do a have a member of the ES Dev team who has really slow typing speed and he uses it to keep up with the rest of the team. most certainly the benefit to him is massive.
I think what AI is is an equalizer and there is no replacement for highly skilled programmers and also probably not technicians.
So if you want to stay relevant in the future, start leveling up those skills.
I find phind to be useful mostly in arenas that i don't know ( example: frontend javascript, which i do little of ), or for having it do a first pass of research for me, asking a question like:
How do i, in apache, use an setEnvIf expression to exclude an access with a query variable?
^-- this is a mega specific question that would take pages of reading to come to an answer in google. Phind gave me a correct answer in the second try, which was great. That saved me about 10-30 minutes of reading obscure documentation points and stack overflow posts.