I had some results last week that I felt were really good - on a very tricky problem, using AI (Claude 3.7) helped me churn through 4 or 5 approaches that didn'

I had some results last week that I felt were really good - on a very tricky problem, using AI (Claude 3.7) helped me churn through 4 or 5 approaches that didn't work, and eventually, working in tandem, "we" found an approach that would. Then the AI helped write a basic implementation of the good approach which I was able to use as a reference for my own "real" implementation. No, the AI would not have solved the problem without me in the loop, but it sped up the cycle of iteration and made something that might have taken me 2 weeks take just a few days. It would be pretty tough to convince me that's not spectacularly useful.