I don't unless a website requires that I talk to one as a poor excuse for customer service.

So, less than once a year.

About as often as I have a conversation with my dishwasher: never.

Never

If by conversation you mean asking for a word by describing it conceptually because I can't remember, every day. If you mean telling it about my day and hobbies, never.

I had fun with it a dozen times or so when it was new, but I'm not amused anymore. Last time was about a month ago, when someone told me about using chatGPT to seek an answer, and I intentionally found a few prompts that made it spill clear bullshit, to send screenshots making a point that LLMs aren't reliable and asking them factual questions is a bad idea.

Never

I've done it once or twice in the early days to see what was up, never since then.

I use Perplexity pretty much every day. It actually gives me the answers I'm looking for, while the search engines just return blog spam and ads.

It varies. Sometimes several times a day, sometimes none for a week or two. I'd say about half of those conversations are about software design.

It's simple: I don't.

Maybe 1-3 times a day. I find that the newest version of ChatGPT (4o) typically returns answers that are faster and better quality than a search engine inquiry, especially for inquiries that have a bit more conceptualization required or are more bespoke (i.e give me recipes to use up these 3 ingredients etc) so it has replaced search engines for me in those cases.

Not as much as I did at the beginning, but I mainly chalk that up to learning more about its limitations and getting better at detecting its bullshit. I no longer go to it for designing because it doesn't do it well at the scale i need. Now it's mainly used to refractor already working code, to remember what a kind of feature is called, and to catch random bugs that usually end up being typos that are hard to see visually. Past that, i only use it for code generation a line at a time with copilot, or sometimes a function at a time if the function is super simple but tedious to type, and even then i only accept the suggestion that i was already thinking of typing.

Basically it's become fancy autocomplete, but that's still saved me a tremendous amount of time.

The closest I come to chatting is asking github co-pilot to explain syntax when I'm learning a new language. I just needed to contribute a class library to an existing C# API, hadn't done OOP in 15 years, and had never touched dotNet.

Daily.

I've attempted to use it to program an android app.

2 weeks of effort... It'll finally build without issue, but still won't run.

I forgot how the conversation went, but one day, a conversation I had with someone about comprehensibility (which was often an issue) compelled me to talk to an AI, a talk which I remember from the fact the AI did now have such issues as the complaining humans had.

Multiple times throughout the day. I co-work on personal projects with several different LLMs. Primarily Claude, but also GPT-4o and Llama 70b.

I ask additional questions or provide information from my side to get a better answer, but I'm still doing this to solve a problem or gather knowledge. I guess that counts as a conversation, but not a casual one.

Once every few months

I've never tried to have what I would call a conversation, but I use it as a tool for both fixing/improving writing and for writing basic scripts in autohotkey, which it's fairly good at.

It's language models are good for removing the emotional work from customer service - either giving bad news in a very detached professional way or being polite and professional when what I want is to call someone a fartknocker.

I mean, if asking to help with code/poorly explained JS libraries counts then... Pretty much every day. Other than that... very rarely.

Conversations as in a back and forth? Never. Not much of a point to it.

Asking questions about topics? On occasion. I find myself distrustful of hallucinations so I usually use it as a jumping off point.

Asking about bugs and documentation? Once a day at least

Maybe 3-4 times a year. Can't see using it more than that at this point.