Comment by teaearlgraycold

Really depends on the engineer, domain and circumstances. I find the best multiplier from AI when working with tech I’m familiar with, in a specialty I’m less familiar with, on a brand new project. I have the vocabulary to describe what I want and how to do it but the details I’d need to spend hours learning are handled for me.

There are absolutely projects I’d done in a week a few years ago that could be done in 3 hours now. But if you need to work with that code for the foreseeable future you’ll need to actually read the generated code.