Comment by Swiffy0

My 5 cents would be that LLMs have replaced all those random (e.g. CSS, regex etc) generators, emmet-like IDE code completion/generator tools, as well as having to google for arbitrary code snippets which you'd just copy and paste in.

In no way can AI be used for anything larger than generating singular functions or anything that would require writing to or modifying multiple files.

Technically you might be able to pull off having AI change multiple files for you in one go, but you'll quickly run into sort of "Adobe Dreamviewer" type of issue where your codebase is dominated by generated code which only the AI that generated it is able to properly extend and modify.

I remember when Dreamviewer was a thing, but you essentialyl had to make a choice between sticking with it forever for the project or not using it at all, because it would basically convert your source code into it's own proprietary format due to it becoming so horribly messy and unreadable.

Regardless, AI is absolutely incredible and speeds up development by a great deal, (even) if you only use it to generate small snippets at the time.

AI is also an absolute godsend for formatting and converting stuff from anything and to anything - you could e.g. dump your whole database structure to Gemini and ask it to generate an API against it; big task, but since it is basically just a conversion task, it will work very well.