I've had tinnitus since birth, or at least for as long as I can remember. I learned to live with it, and now it's nothing more than a conversational topic for me.
Lots of great insights here. Personally, I use ChatGPT as a "sparring partner": I present an idea and talk with it to elaborate it further. Wether it's about programming, science, writing prompts or game design, among other examples.
Another great use case is to use ChatGPT to speed up chores, like hard to remember syntax or functions that are easy but boring to think and write, like parsers. Or even thinking about how to build the architecture of a certain application.
We're still using a lot of Objective-C, given than more than half of the codebase of our app is 10+ years old. We're trying to transition to Swift, but it's been slow thus far.
I've had it since I can remember. One of my earliest memories, I was 1 or 2 years old, was "playing" with it while falling asleep at night: I'd focus on it and made the ringing grow louder and louder till it was the only sound in my ears, then it steadily grew quiter till I fell asleep.
Nowadays, I'm 27 years old, my brain filters it out, but I can still hear it when it's quite. Perhaps it's one of the reasons I always have some background lofi music playing.