[tonyedgecombe]

>I can’t square my own experience with the hype machine.

Me neither. My gut feeling is it's the inexperienced who gain the most from generative AI. That does seem to be confirmed by papers like this:

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/workers-less-e...

At most I've found it helps with some of the routine work but saving a few minutes typing doesn't offset the problems it creates.

[PeterStuer]

I find it hard to believe the inexperienced would benefit at all. Ai assisted coding requires serious general experience in all matters software to get good value out of it.