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I've found them useful, sometimes, but nothing like a fraction of what the hype would suggest.
They're not adequate replacements for code reviewers, but getting an AI code review does let me occasionally fix a couple of blunders before I waste another human's time with them.
I've also had the occasional bit of luck with "why am I getting this error" questions, where it saved me 10 minutes of digging through the code myself.
"Create some test data and a smoke test for this feature" is another good timesaver for what would normally be very tedious drudge work.
What I have given up on is "implement a feature that does X" questions, because it invariably creates more work than it saves. Companies selling "type in your app idea and it'll write the code" solutions are snake-oil salesman.