Not committed to using it.
Until recently my mental health post-burnout has been so absolutely poor that I have been learning all of this just to try to concentrate on anything so I don’t feel further out of the loop. Most days I still feel like I should quit IT.
In the limited ways I am actually using it in a productive rather than self-educational sense, I tend to be using it to combat burnout: helping get past blank page problems, rough ideation and keeping track of ideas, doing slightly more cohesive research than just ending up with dozens of open tabs and some unclear notes, generating helper processes (like content migrations) that I might otherwise not be able to make myself write, and exploring using it to do the unthrilling work like automated test generation.
I don’t plan on becoming someone who sits back and specifies loops, and that doesn’t fit with the work I am doing. I have far too many disjointed things I have to work on.
But it is definitely a more varied rubber duck, and that has some potential. I feel a little less stuck, sometimes.