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Ugh, I'll just ask ChatGPT from now on.
I prefer 1000 times ChatGPT than asking in forums, specially for coding questions.
I can get multiple answers in a minute, multiple replies for the same question and do as many follow up questions as I please without having to wait patiently for an answer.
I still don't know how I managed to learn PowerShell on my own using Google only.
I wouldn't trust ChatGPT with teaching me about some tool. It in my experience very convincingly spews out stuff it invented, and if one is still learning I can see it being hard to spot those errors. I use it to fix syntax errors in SQL queries, though, since I can't be bothered to try understanding the not-so-helpful error messages I get with my queries, and because if chaptgpt tells a lie it will be caught by my syntax checker.
So, I guess you can use it, if you always assume it to be trying to mislead you until proven to the contrary.
I would and I have, but you can't always blindly trust what it says. It's better to ask it to explain in detail the code it produces, so you can really learn and also as a safeguard.