For me, it's a bit like pair programming. I have someone to discuss ideas with. Someone to review my code and suggest alternative approaches. Some one that uses different feature than I do, so I learn from them.
This is how I use it too. It's great at quickly answering questions. I find it particularly useful if I have to work with a language of framework that I'm not fully experienced in.
> I find it particularly useful if I have to work with a language of framework that I'm not fully experienced in
Yep - my number 1 use case for LLMs is as a template and example generator. It actually seems like a fairly reasonable use for probabilistic text generation!