Programming

It can do classroom bullshit because it's well-defined, small in scope, and generally isolated. If an entire app can be expressed in 1000 lines of code, AI can probably do it faster and better than you. But when you're talking about a full microservice or game, it can't.

Coding skill is about knowing what to build and levels of abstraction. Writing the code itself is more tedium than skill. If you can understand code well enough to see AI output and edit it to repair the bullshit and keep the boilerplate, you're doing great.

The challenge is AI code looks really good while sucking hind tit. Even I go through this after thirty years of experience. AI writes code that looks great because the stupid stuff it does is largely hidden from you — it is stupid decisions it made and then wrote code consistent with that decision. You haven't thought through the hard bits so it's solution looks simple and right. But it did the thing wrong.

I use AI all the time, and I find it helpful, but it's FAR from perfect. So very far.