I disagree. It's all about how you're using them. AI coding assistants make it easy to translate thought to code. So much boilerplate can be given to the assist

I disagree. It's all about how you're using them. AI coding assistants make it easy to translate thought to code. So much boilerplate can be given to the assistant to write out while you focus on system design, architecture, etc, and then just guide the AI system to generate the code for you.