But at the same time it'll write me 2000 lines of really gnarly text parsing code in a very optimized fashion that would have taken a senior dev all day to cran

But at the same time it'll write me 2000 lines of really gnarly text parsing code in a very optimized fashion that would have taken a senior dev all day to crank out. We have to stop trying to compare them to a human, because they are alien. They make mistakes humans wouldn't, and they complete very difficult tasks that would be tedious and difficult for humans. All in the same output. I'm net-positive from using AI, though. It can definitely remove a lot of tedium.