I mean... I don't think ai development is appropriate for all uses, but I do personally get quite a lot of value out of being able to just get a quick and entirely custom solution to a specific pain point.

Ex - I ripped the home launcher out of my Nvidia shields and replaced it with an entirely ai generated one that has child lock controls and doesn't show any ads.

The "human produced" product was already a piece of enshittified crap. The llm version didn't need to be a masterpiece, it just needed to more clearly match my needs and respect my time. The current ai launcher is notably faster, ad free, and much easier to use. It's not worse.

All the other options for child controls that I could buy we're much more complicated, and wanted subscription fees (30+/y).

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So it's a balancing act. Pretending there's no value here at all is also incredibly disingenuous.

Should all professionals be doing ai only development? Obviously not.

Can this still be a useful and meaningful tool? Obviously yes.