While I am not the most experienced, I did recently finish a CS a degree and find chatgpt a great resource for getting a general understanding to go off of when approaching something outside my domain of experience. Having a core understanding of things in general makes it easier to identify when it's wrong about things, and the majority of time I am not using it to generate code, outside of asking for an example. Being able to ask a few direct question on a topic "demolishes" the time spent to become familiar with something, as most of the time I am just looking for answer about some specifics or to clear up some ambiguity in my understanding of a new concept.

I would say with someone new to coding it can be bad and good, as a lot of times it glosses over things, or can be slightly incorrect as it makes assumptions (or more so just answers in a more general context, and when asked to elaborate, or challenged on specifics it will reformat/improve it's answer, but without knowing you need to do so, I could see it easily see it providing half-baked foundational knowledge. You can ask it "x" and it will give a answer, but then if you ask it I am trying to do "y" with "x" and isn't "z" an issue or area of concern with its answer it will reformulate the information provided as its original response was flawed, but if you don't know exactly what the "y" you want to do is, or the "z" being foundational knowledge to challenge it on, you can easily get a whole wall of text that is out of context with what you are actually trying to learn.