Net negative. I do find it genuinely useful for code review, and "better search engine" or snippets, and sometimes for rubber ducking, but for agent mode and actual longer coding tasks I always end up rewriting the code it makes. Whatever it produces always looks like one of those students who constantly slightly misunderstands and only cares about minor test objectives, never seeing the big picture. And I waste so much time on the hope that this time it will make me more productive if only I can nudge it in the right direction, maybe I'm not holding it right, using the right tools/processes/skills etc. It feels like javascript frameworks all over again.
Same. I vacillate between thinking our profession will soon be over to thinking we’re perfectly safe. Sometimes, it’s brilliant. It is very good at exploring and explaining a codebase, finding bugs, and doing surgical fixes. It’s sometimes good at programming larger tasks, but only if you really don’t care about code quality.
The one thing I’m not sure about is: does code quality and consistency actually matter? If your architecture is sufficiently modular, you can quickly and inexpensively regenerate any modules whose low quality proves to be problematic.
So, maybe we really are fucked. I don’t know.