For me, Copilot and its sisters have been like self-driving cars: a slightly more advanced IDE autocomplete, analogous to a slightly more advanced cruise control. But it's far from Level 5 self driving and it's not obvious whether we will ever reach that.
You still have to keep your hands on the wheel and you need driving expertise. But since writing uncommitted code has less disastrous potential consequences, it is much more usable.
I still don't believe the people who claim they are using AI to write or rewrite entire codebases. Maybe for the first version of toy projects. But I've yet to see anyone using AI to automatically write entire features that span an enterprise software codebase.
You still have to keep your hands on the wheel and you need driving expertise. But since writing uncommitted code has less disastrous potential consequences, it is much more usable.
I still don't believe the people who claim they are using AI to write or rewrite entire codebases. Maybe for the first version of toy projects. But I've yet to see anyone using AI to automatically write entire features that span an enterprise software codebase.