Maybe it's just because both our industry as well as the internet always going to the extrema, but I'd love to see a nuanced take on the subject at some point.

Maybe it's just because both our industry as well as the internet always going to the extrema, but I'd love to see a nuanced take on the subject at some point. My experience so far is middling; I found that it can be extremely helpful when working on novel things; greenfield projects it can lay a solid foundation for. If I'm learning some new framework it can shit out a first version that helps me understand how the thing works. However, as soon as things get a bit more complex, they immediately start shitting the bed. Working in existing codebases of more than like 25 files and they become useless. Hell, even asking some models to document a 150 line batch install file made it hallucinate all kinds of stuff that didn't exist. Furthermore, you really do have to talk to them like they're autistic idiot-savants. Precise steps, boundaries, everything. But even then they often just go off into the deep end. Even when I explicitly tell it to do one thing, one thing only and not change anything else, over 50% of the time it starts changing everything. It's another tool, and like with all tools you need to know how and when to use it, I guess. As an industry we're not going to finger out the right ways if half the world refuses to use a powerdrill because well gosh darn it, hammers have always been good enough, and the other half swears up and down you don't need cement anymore because you could just as easily screw bricks together.