Most people hyping their AI use mention the short-term gains without taking into account how it affects overall long-term success. We are creatures of convenience.

Considering most teams have only switched to heavy AI use in the past few months, the verdict is still out on this.

That said, I've had lots of success using AI to learn, refactor and clean up codebases.

I notice another trend were a lot of AI naysayers haven't really spent a ton of time getting intimately familiar with AI.