Well I can tell you about my current use case. I've been using GPT4 and recently phind.com this week to teach me Go and use it in a project I just started, no knowledge at all about the language at the very beginning. In just 7 days, developing in my spare time (apart from family, my work etc) I already have like the 20-30% of the project already done... I've been doing a mix of Googling and AI use, and I have a very clear idea on my mind that both things have a very specific use case and particularly AI, whenever I found it useful (a concrete but complex problem at the same time) has been beyond amazing... one day I even felt emotional, never in all the decades I've been programing I've felt I received so much help.
PS. Actually I think that "things" is not a proper way anymore to label the current AI systems.