I view it as a force multiplier, like a lever. In good hands it produces outsized gains. In the wrong hands it produces outsized losses.

It just makes you MORE of whatever it was you already were.

I partially agree. I can see the before and after difference in colleague's code. It's night and day.

They're doing things now that they either flat out could not do before, or if they did it would be an giant mess (I realize they still can't really do it now, AI is doing it for them).