>Seriously, what value are tokens providing other than justifying layoffs. Concretely. Today.

It's adding tests for me and doing medium complexity refactors that I'd otherwise have to spend hours on

Same, and constructing at least drafts of huge documents that I can iteratively fine-tune that have (at least last week) saved me 10's of hours.

And based on reality (code) rather than my feelz of what I vaguely remember the code to have been doing in some long past.

These example put in the category of “best IDE ever created, by a wide margin” - but not “replacement for the programming workforce”.

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