Generally agree. My take on how I use it quite effectively with my work:
1) List generator. I am (and I would argue most humans are) kinda bad in making long lists of things, so I ask the LLMs to generate it for me like:
"rewrite this phrase 20 times".
"Give me 20 synonyms for this word"
"Give me a list of 10 inequalities I can use here to prove this result"
2) Do simple things I don't want/don't have time to learn. For example I wanted to make a simple redirect from pippellia.com to the Obsidian link. Don't know shit about the web, so I asked and it did the job.
3) Replace Stack overflow / looking at the documentation for beginners questions like
"What's the pythonic way to write this"
"how can I get the position of an element in a list"