This is my thoughts exactly.

It speeds up so much of what I do, simple tasks are amazing to delegate to AI and it leaves me with more time in the day to tackle the big tasks.

My general rule of thumb now is I never get AI to build the bones of something which I believe I will need to build something else on top of later. But if it’s some throw away dead end feature that won’t require me to build more tooling on top of in future I’ll happily spin up a cloud agent and use the result.

They're really amazing for making one-off tools where you just need some clean output and can throw away the code afterwards. I had Claude Opus put together a data labeling web app with very little effort. Less work than creating an account on some SaaS and learning their system.