My experience is it often generates code that is subtlety incorrect. And I'll waste time debugging it.
But if I give it a code example that was written by humans and ask it to explain the code, it gives pretty good explanations.
It's also good for questions like "I'm trying to accomplish complicated task XYZ that I've never done before, what should I do?", and it will give code samples that get me on the right path.
Or it'll help me debug my code and point out things I've missed.
It's like a pair programmer that's good for bouncing ideas, but I wouldn't trust it to write code unsupervised.
But if I give it a code example that was written by humans and ask it to explain the code, it gives pretty good explanations.
It's also good for questions like "I'm trying to accomplish complicated task XYZ that I've never done before, what should I do?", and it will give code samples that get me on the right path.
Or it'll help me debug my code and point out things I've missed.
It's like a pair programmer that's good for bouncing ideas, but I wouldn't trust it to write code unsupervised.