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>>dheera+(OP)
It is 80/20 again - it gets you 80% of the way in 20% of the time and then you spend 80% of the time to get the rest of the 20% done. And since it always feels like it is almost there, sunk-cost fallacy comes into play as well and you just don't want to give up.

I think an approach that I tried recently is to use it as a friction remover instead of a solution provider. I do the programming but use it to remove pebbles such as that small bit of syntax I forgot, basically to keep up the velocity. However, I don't look at the wholesale code it offers. I think keeping the active thinking cap on results in code I actually understand while avoiding skill atrophy.

>>noisy_+g5
This is just not true in my experience. Not with the latest models. I routinely manage to 1-shot a whole "thing." e.g. yesterday I needed a Wordpress plugin for a single-time use to clean up a friend's site. I described exactly what I needed, it produced the code, it ran perfect first time and the UI looked like a million dollars. It got me 100% of the way in 0% of the time.

I'm the biggest skeptic, but more and more I'm seeing it get me the bulk of the way with very little back-and-forth. If it was even more heavily integrated in my dev environment, it would save me even more time.