The people on your network are BS'ing about it. I do use all those tools, since from the very beginning when ChatGPT even wasn't widely available. If you are

The people on your network are BS'ing about it. I do use all those tools, since from the very beginning when ChatGPT even wasn't widely available. If you are automating something that isn't high impact or important, sure just let it write the code and don't even verify it. But in a big org, you'll need to validate it on every step, every generated line of code can have bugs, injections and negative side-effects. I believe you'll be more productive by using it, and prompting well, but you'll need to invest much more time on double-checking if everything is working accordingly to what you initially planned, or you might ship very broken code in production that can be difficult to revert, at a times. 2x productivity is possible, but it really depends on the kind of tasks you get. If your entire job is prototyping stuff, sure you are now 100x+. But if you need to write very complex business logic that will last for years, with lots of back and forth and discussions with PMs and whatnot, which is the majority of SWE corporate jobs... my bet you'd be at maximum 1.5x!