Comment by tracker1

I'm somewhat optimistic... I think a lot of companies and managers are in a wait and see mode. The AI tooling can be genuinely helpful, but IMO definitely needs manual review and testing for function and security.

Personally, mostly just using it for personal projects that I've been sitting on for years... it's been pretty motivating and I'm actually making progress, though I'm split across half a dozen things so it's slower going. I'm also far more interactive than vibe coding one and done efforts. I'm finicky when it comes to UX for user facing apps, and DevEx for developer APIs on libraries I work on.

It's nice, far from perfect... I still liken it to managing foreign developer teams... the more you specify ahead of time, the better the results. The difference is a turn around in minutes instead of the next business day. Iteration is very fast by comparison. That said, sometimes the agent will make toddler decisions like rewriting all the broken tests and updating the docs to match the behavior instead of correcting the behavior to match the api and tests.