[chenxi9649]

>even the latest GPT-4/Gemini doesn't produce anything I can drop in and have it work

This is certainly true for more complex code generation. But there are a lot of "rote" work that I do use GPT to generate, and I feel like those have really improved my productivity.

The other use case for AI-assisted coding is that it _really_ helps me learn certain stuff. Whether it's a new language, or code that someone else wrote. Often times I know what I want done, but I don't know the corresponding utility functions in that language, and AI will not only be able to generate it for me but also through the process teach me about the existence of those things.(some of which are wrong lol, but it's correct enough for me to keep that behavior)