Im on the core sql execution team at a database company and everyone on the team is using AI coding assistants. Certainly not doing any monkey-esque web programming.

> everyone on the team is using AI coding assistants.

Then the tool worked for you(r team). That's great to hear and maybe gives some hope for my projects.

It has just mostly been more of a time sink than an improvement ime though it appears to strongly vary by field/application.

> Certainly not doing any monkey-esque web programming

The point here was not to demean the user (or their usage) but rather to highlight how developers are not being dependent on LLMs as a tool. Your team presumably did the same type of work before without LLMs and won't become unable to do so if there were to become unavailable.

That likely was not properly expressed in the original comment by me, sorry.