[jbeninger]

As an experienced coder, I find ai invaluable for a ton of stuff, nearly none of it writing production code.

* Variable naming

* Summarizing unfamiliar code

* Producing boilerplate code when I have examples

* Producing one-liners when I've forgotten the parameter order or API specification. I double check, but this is basically a Google that directly answers your question

* Pre-code brainstorming

* Code review. Depending on the language it can catch classes of problems that escape linters

In my experience it won't produce production-ready code, but it's great as a rubber duck and a second pair of eyes.