For me (about halfway between you and dofm in my career by your own statements in this thread), it's a dream at the moment. I can delegate all the tedious stuff that I've done "the hard way" a thousand times already and feel I have very little of value remaining to learn, so that I can spend more time on all the things that are actually new and thus much more interesting.

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greyskull 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It's been a great multiplier for me in similar ways. The "dreamiest" thing has been that it has freed up time that I would normally have spent doing sprint work, to work on things that just don't make the cut until it's bad enough to deprioritize other work.

Over the last few months, I've been digging into performance problems with a high throughput service that my team owns. I started working on the problems in my own time, put out short and medium term improvements that legitimately avoided operational issues, and started developing an alternate architecture that should meaningfully address the problems for the long term.

I've learned new things and made improvements that probably wouldn't have ever gone in otherwise.

	▲	sanderjd 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes exactly. There is a narrative that it's driving everything toward low quality slop, but in my own work it's exactly the opposite. We're doing work on quality and performance that we never would have gotten to in the past. I've spent my whole career being frustrated by the pile of low severity bugs and performance issues that "I could fix that if I could only justify putting a couple hours into it!". And now I can just fix all those. Nobody is going to question my use of time to write prompts and do code reviews of those things, when I can to my "real" work simultaneously.