Right, I find that AI tools combined with solid domain knowledge are incredibly effective. Yeah, if you try to one-shot a complex distributed system you'll end up with a mess, but the same thing would happen if you tried to do it yourself in the space of a day - you're still reasoning and applying experience, it's just you have an automated tool to take care of generating the source code.

Yeah, I 100% agree with you. I was very reluctant to pick up AI tools for coding for a long time. But now I have, I've gone from thinking the code was the most important bit to realising the thinking behind the code is the actual real important bit. I am not sure AI tools will ever be able to replace that element.