It depends what you're wanting to do and what you define as 'cheating'? I'd expect you'd get better at debugging massive amounts of hallucinated code, but I don't think it'd generally improve your skills in software design/engineering/architecture. It might help you learn about breaking down software and integration though.
I've found they disintegrate in the presence of liquids - if you don't put in food waste (which you can put into a compost bin anyway), they work pretty well!
Why else would they make access to OpenAI/ChatGPT/etc so cheap? So others can build businesses on the tech that get locked in before they jack up the price.
Keep in mind XMPP had similar sorts of activity back when chat apps were the rage, and in the end the protocol was added to Google Talk (now dead), AIM (now removed), Facebook (now removed), and Skype (now removed). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Non-nativedeployments
I suspect existing orgs will want to contribute just as long as it takes to steal users and build a garden, that they can then wall off.
Until the first commercial title gets sued and then publishers won't touch any game with AI generated content