Well it certainly is ridiculous to expect AI to write the whole thing. That is clearly an abuse of the technology. But your implication that I must be a crap coder to claim massive acceleration is also off base. I’m the principal engineer at a company delivering enterprise software to a major Australian bank. I work in a team of four of the company’s most senior engineers to do PoCs, research new approaches to problems and prototype solutions. We all use AI to accelerate our coding. I couldn’t quantify the benefit but I would guess it would range from 10% for highly complex novel engineering to 100% for boilerplate - and most day-to-day coding is closer to boilerplate than it is to the other end of the spectrum. The key is intelligent, directed and discerning use. If you have juniors being unleashed to use it without supervision of the quality and cohesion of the resulting codebase, then that is a management failure.