Comment by dymk

And yet I keep meeting programmers who say AI coding assistants are saving them tons of time or helping them work through problems they otherwise wouldn't have been able to tackle. I count myself among that group at this point. Maybe that means I'm just not a very good programmer if I need the assistance, but I'd like to think my work speaks for itself at this point.

Some things where I've found AI coding assistants to be fantastic time savers:

  - Searching a codebase with natural language
  - Quickly groking the purpose of a function or file or module
  - Rubber duck debugging some particularly tricky code
  - Coming up with tests exercising functionality I hadn't yet considered
  - Getting up to speed with popular libraries and APIs