I'd agree. Programming is a solid use case for AI. Programming is a part of my job, and hobby too, and that's the main place where I've seen some value with it. It still is not living up to the hype but for simple things, like building a website or helping me generate the proper SQL to get what I want - it helps and can be faster than writing by hand. It's pretty much replaced StackOverflow for helping me debug things or look up how to do something that I know is already solved somewhere and I don't want to reinvent. But, I've also seen it make a complete mess of my codebase anytime I try to build something larger. It might technically give me a working widget after some vibe coding, but I'm probably going to have to clean the whole thing up manually and refactor some of it. I'm not certain that it's more efficient than just doing it myself from the start.

Every other facet of the world that AI is trying to 'take over', is not programming. Programming is writing text, what AI is good at. It's using references to other code, which AI has been specifically trained on. Etc. It makes sense that that use case is coming along well. Everything else, not even close IMO. Unless it's similar. It's probably great at helping people draft emails and finish their homework. I don't have those pain points.