Plus, humans bullshit all the time, even well paid and highly trained humans like Doctors and Lawyers. They will bullshit while charging you 400 an hour. Then they'll gaslight you if you try to correct their bullshit.

AI will bullshit sometimes, but you can generally call it on the bullshit and correct it.

For the tasks that it helps me with, I could work with a human. But the human I could afford would be a junior programmer. Not only do they bullshit more than a well prompted AI, but I also have to pay them 30 an hour, and they can't properly write specs or analyze requirements. GPT 4 can analyze requirements. Much better then a junior, and I'm many ways better than me. For pennies.

I do use it in the real world, to maintain and develope software for the industrial design company I own. It would be foolish if I didn't. I've been able to modernize all our legacy codes and build features that used to stump me.

Maybe the fact is that I'm an incompetent programmer, and that's why I find it so helpful.

If that's the case so be it! It's still a significant help that is accessible to me. That matters!