[archargelod]

Then it's probably small enough - where you don't need a help of AI, and should do it yourself.

My position is that AI could be useful to find the potential places for these changes, but it should be someone who's capable of thinking to implement them.

[simondotau]

That might be true for you. For me, I can stay in flow state so long as I'm progressing, even if progressing doesn't involve writing every line by hand. Whereas I easily fall out of flow state as soon as I am frustrated by an inability to remember some particular bit of syntax, or a particular bit of architecture, or a particular code pattern.

For me, AI has been a godsend for productivity because it's great at what I'm bad at. I'm not spending 99% of my day grinding away at C++ code; I'm never writing enough for it to become a world class language expert. I'm jumping between SQL queries, CSS, Java, bezier curves, Python, and shell. If I need to write something in a language I touch infrequently (e.g. Go or Ruby) it's nice to have individual blocks of code generated for me, so that I'm not slowed down by my ignorance on a language's iterator syntax, or whatever.