Comment by onlyrealcuzzo

AI is really good when:

1. you want something that's literally been done tons of times before, and it can literally just find it inside its compressed dataset

2. you want something and as long as it roughly is what you wanted, it's fine

It turns out, this is not the majority of software people are paying engineers to write.

And it turns out that actually writing the code is only part of what you're paying for - much smaller than most people think.

You are not paying your surgeon only to cut things.

You are not paying your engineer only to write code.