I just don't get it. There is no benefit I can see from it.

My coworkers reason to use it was that it's so easy and quick if she wants to know something.
Let's be real honey, so is [entering search engine of your choice]-ing it. I let yourself decide which results you trust more.

Programming? You should still know how to do it yourself to fix the problems the LLM makes.

Creative writing? I do that for fun! I'm not gonna outsource my hobbies to a machine. Also if I'm not interested enough in a story to at least try to write it myself, why should I spend any time on it?

(and TBH, the hard part was to formulate 3 to 5 sentences why I think I'm qualified for this position. And if I had not been able to do that, I doubt that would have been qualified.)

What else is there it could potentially do for me?

For my old job, I had to write a lot of emails and never had a problem with that. I just wrote whatever I would have said to the person if I had called them or would talk in person.
Writing applications at the beginning of the year was annoying as fuck but not something I didn't needed help with

from my dishwasher to the expensive machine at work. If I want to know something about a specific animal or person or historic event or whatever, Wikipedia is still a great starting point. And for deep dives into a specific topic I have a library card (I 💖 my local library).

If I have a question I either know a real person I can ask -at work I greatly prefer to just ask a more senior coworker over trying to figure it out myself; they either know what to do or we can figure it out together- or I know where to look stuff up. All machines have user manuals,