It's easy to confuse text generation with thinking. I found that if I treat it as a program that can generate text, it's a lot easier to write the prompt that

It's easy to confuse text generation with thinking. I found that if I treat it as a program that can generate text, it's a lot easier to write the prompt that generates code that's more or less what I need. It can do the boring stuff pretty easily, like generate boilerplate code or settings files. It can explain technical issues better than googling. It also helps that I use a functional language with immutable data structures and the code it generates is either good or good enough to give me an idea on how to move forward. Once you lower your expectations and use it for what it is, it's a very powerful tool.