> I have a hard enough time using and trusting snippet engines or doing due diligence in implementing a solution I find on stack overflow.

Is it possible you are not breaking the problem the right way? I.e get better at understanding what it can do for you and conveying to it in a better way what you want.

To me it seems like a huge handicap not using these. At the same time if you use it too much your skills may degrade overtime (maybe the skills that degrade are not worth holding onto in this new world anyway... we'll see).

It reliably acts like a junior dev who can sort of complete the statement or add the next N branches after you add a few lines. But you have to be good at spotting bugs or inefficient implementations quickly and probe it till it corrects it.