The more you use the tools, the more you're able to recognize the situations in which they're useful.

These studies keep popping up where they randomly decide whether someone will use AI to assist in a feature or not and it's hard for me to explain just how stupid that is. And how it's a fundamental misunderstanding of when and how you'd want to use these tools.

It's like being a person who hangs up drywall with screws and your boss going "Hey, I'm gonna flip a coin and if it's heads you'll have to use the hammer instead of a screwdriver" and that being the method in which the hammer is judged.

I don't wake and go "I'm going to use AI today". I don't use it to create entire features. I use it like a dumb assistant.

> I've had similar mixed results with agentic coding sometimes impressing me and other times disappointing me. But if you can adapt to some of these limitations it's alright. And this seems to be a bit of a moving goalpost thing as well. Things that were hard a few months ago are now more doable.

Exactly my experience too.

> I don't use it to create entire features.

I actually do this now. That's one of those things that went from impossible to doable under some circumstances. Still a bit of a coin flip but it can work well in some code bases. I still have a mental block even asking for these things under the assumption it would not work anyway. But I've been pleasantly surprised a few times where this actually works.