Many people gave good tips, so let me answer in general. As someone on the "senior" side AI has been very helpful in speeding up my work. As I work with many l

Many people gave good tips, so let me answer in general. As someone on the "senior" side AI has been very helpful in speeding up my work. As I work with many languages, many projects I haven't touched in months and while my code is relatively simple the underlying architecture is rather complex. So where I do use AI my prompts are very detailed. Often I spot mistakes that get corrected etc. With this I still see a big speedup (at least 2x,often more). The quality is almost the same. However, I noticed many "team leads" try to use the AI as an excuse to push too difficult tasks onto "junior" people. The situation described by the OP is what happens sometimes. Then when I go to the person and ask for some weird thing they are doing I get "I don't know, copilot told me"... Many times I tried to gently steer such AI users towards using it as a learning tool. "Ask it to explain to you things you don't understand" "Ask questions about why something is written this way" and so on. Not once I saw it used like this. But this is not everyone. Some people have this skill which lets them get a lot more out of pair programming and AI. I had a couple trainees in the current team 2 years ago that were great at this. This way as "pre-AI" in this company, but when I was asked to help them they were asking various questions and 6 months later they were hired on permanent basis. Contrast this with: - "so how should I change this code"? - You give them a fragment, they go put it in verbatim and come back via teams with a screenshot of an error message... Basically expecting you will do the task for them. Not a single question. No increased ability to do it on their own. This is how they try to use AI as well. And it's a huge time waster.