Well, having AI transform some data into a certain CSV format is orders of magnitude simpler and more straightforward of a programming task than what I try to use it for.
A lot of the discrepancy between people's experiences is simply due to the fact there's there's a massive range of programming complexity/difficulty that people can be trying to apply AI to. If your programming is mostly lower complexity stuff, non-critical stuff, or simply defined stuff, it obviously works better.
I try to use AI when I get stuck on a hard problem/algorithm, hoping that it can provide an answer/solution to unblock me. But when I'm stuck the problem I'm facing is so complicated that there's no chance at all that AI is actually going to be able to help me with it. I see absolutely no point in using AI when I already know how to solve a problem, I just solve it. I only turn to it when I need help, and it can never help me.
A lot of the discrepancy between people's experiences is simply due to the fact there's there's a massive range of programming complexity/difficulty that people can be trying to apply AI to. If your programming is mostly lower complexity stuff, non-critical stuff, or simply defined stuff, it obviously works better.
I try to use AI when I get stuck on a hard problem/algorithm, hoping that it can provide an answer/solution to unblock me. But when I'm stuck the problem I'm facing is so complicated that there's no chance at all that AI is actually going to be able to help me with it. I see absolutely no point in using AI when I already know how to solve a problem, I just solve it. I only turn to it when I need help, and it can never help me.