In fairness, about 50% of my code by lines is written by AI these days, and I don't have it linked into my code base. That claim isn't ridiculous

Now, of that 50% is 88% long repetitive crap that I could easily write but find mentally draining, the other 10% is something simple that I would normally copy paste from elsewhere because I forgot the exact syntax (and don't exactly remember where I used it last) and me giving it a shot with things I don't want to do, like restyling a page. The last 2% is me giving it a shot with business logic for shits and giggles, occasionally I'll try to coach it through the solution but usually I just grab bits and pieces and rewrite it myself

Granted, this is the easiest and most simple and repetitive code, but it's still a godsend. Now can AI write the other 50%? With a proper setup where it ingests the code base into a vector store it might get up to 75%, if I was willing to coach it through my tasks carefully (taking more time than the task would take me) I could probably get it up to 85% or 90%, but that last 10%? It just can't, it's not even close

It's not taking my job without a paradigm shifting breakthrough or two on the scale of "all you need is attention". Even then, it only works if you write your prompts like code... If you don't understand how to use it and understand the code well enough to communicate the goal explicitly and unambiguously, you're not going to be able to drive it where you want it to go

To put it another way, you can build 90% of the system in 10% of the time it takes to complete the last 10%