Comment by SmirkingRevenge

I've been able to do relatively big refactors with great success, like porting thousands of lines of data transforms to drastically different data stores practically in one fell swoop. In the background. As I worked on other stuff.

The cost of experimenting is just mind mindbogglingly cheap now, it's really insane. Don't like the abstractions it comes up with, or think it generated a bunch of slop? Go again, who cares? With a little more steering, they'll often produce exactly what you want.

As for contracting firms, many of them were slop shops before AI, I imagine those kinds of firms are even worse slop shops now.