Related tangentially perhaps, but I find this to be a particularly helpful application of things like ChatGPT. Instead of asking it to give me the answer, I tell it what I’m trying to do and ask it to ask me questions about it. It’s great for gathering thoughts for writing, and I’ve been using it a little to try to help me think through software problems more quickly.

It’s very good at asking “dumb” (ew) or at least simple, building-block questions, and it almost always ends up asking me about something I hadn’t considered that ends up contributing to what I’d have done without the machine. It’s also kind of fun.