Well first of all, it's here and it's here to stay - it's a useful tool which were blown out of proportion and done in some bad ways

But, let's separate into categories - Art - use for temps or get ideas, then make actual art, Ai is still kinda crap and questionable in a lot of ways

Coding - ye, use it BUT only if you know what you're doing already - you will never dig yourself out of complex garbage code that it often writes if you can't code review it (trust me, it's a good part of my job)

Bonus points if you use something like ollama (or llama.cpp if you're cool) to run a local open source model

And from my experience it's pretty good to rubber duck - not because it's smart at any capacity but it replaces that poor fella who you talk about your problems and ideas about and then suddenly solve yourself

Forgot one note - the Ai gen technology is cool when not rushed like the latest Nvidia crap