[raxxorraxor]

It can put out code much faster than any software dev. And if you are careful with your prompts and demands, it is good quality code as well.

Especially for visualising data, to just get a quick look at, it can now be done in lightning speed and I am quite familiar with "manual data processing" in a few languages.

AI use me decently outcompetes manual me. Sometimes there are also stupid tasks. Data must be serialised in a certain way for some stupid reason. You prepare the info to be digested and the busywork can be done by agents with little oversight, which otherwise would have taken you a few hours. There simply is a limit in how fast you can read, look up field names, etc... If you outsource these critical paths to AI, you can gain productivity.

I also start way more side projects now and I like manual coding a lot.

[xigoi]

> It can put out code much faster than any software dev.

Judging a programmer by how much code they write is like judging an airplane engineer by how heavy their planes are.

[raxxorraxor]

Of course, it isn't the quantity. It is more about the features you wouldn't implement because manual dev takes a long time and why not let the AI spin up a non-critical site for administration or testing just for you. The cost/benefit calculation shifts a bit.

That said, if you get something quite heavy to lift off, it probably is a decent engineering feet. Not saying it would be the best plane :)