Comment by bodge5000

The thing with AI agents I tend to find is they reveal how much heavy lifting the dev is actually doing.

A personal example, my best use out of AI so far has been cases where documentation was poor to nonexistent, and Claude was able to give me a solution. But the thing is, it wasn't a working solution, nowhere close, but it was enough for me to extrapolate and do my own research based on the structure, classes and functions it used. Basically, it gave me somewhere to start from. Whether that's worth the social, economic and environmental problems is another story.