AI coding overall still seems to be underrated by the average developer. They try to add a new feature or change some behavior in a large existing codebase and

AI coding overall still seems to be underrated by the average developer. They try to add a new feature or change some behavior in a large existing codebase and it does something dumb and they write it off as a waste of time for that use case. And that's understandable. But if they had tweaked the prompt just a bit it actually might've done it flawlessly. It requires patience and learning the best way to guide it and iterate with it when it does something silly. Although you undoubtedly will lose some time re-attempting prompts and fixing mistakes and poor design choices, on net I believe the frontier models can currently make development much more productive in almost any codebase.