It helps a complete newbie like me get started and even learn while I do. Due to its restrictions and shortcoming, I've been having to learn how to structure and plan a project more carefully and thoughtfully, even creating design specs for programs and individual functions, all in order to provide useful prompts for ChatGPT to act on. I learn best by trial and error, with the ability to ask why things happened or are the way they are.

So, as a secondary teaching assistant, I think it's very useful. But trying to use the API for ChatGPT 4 is...not worth it. I can easily blow through $20 in a few hours. So, I got a day and a half of use out of it before I gave up. :|