Appreciate your perspective. To be clear, I'm using it to become a better small game developer and not relying on it to answer anything I would classify as an "important question". Moreover, I don't take everything AI tells me to be 100% accurate (and I never copy/paste the response). Rather, I use it as an assistant with which I can have a back and forth "conversation" to acquire other perspectives.

Despite a lot of effort, I'm just not a highly skilled developer and I don't have any friends / colleagues I can turn to for assistance (I don't know a single software developer or even another person who enjoys video games). While resources like StackOverflow are certainly useful, having answers tailored to my specific situation really accelerates progress.

I'm not trying to cure cancer here and much of what would be considered the "best approach" for a small game architecture is unique to the developer. As such, AI is an incredible resource to lean on and get information tailored to my unique use case (here is my code...how does {topic} apply to my situation?")

And yes, I find errors from time to time, but that is good. It keeps me on my toes and forces me to really understand the response / perspective.