Heh! I wondered what your take would be.
Actually, my genuine take on AI is that, if leveraged correctly, it does save a good deal of time. It produces (smaller) code snippets that conform to your needs.
I’ve gone from being worried about it — that it would take developer jobs — to realizing that it is unlikely to ever really be ‘intelligent’. There are certain biological imperatives ‘coded’ into us via millions of years of evolution that AI cannot get access to, and those imperatives consist of initiative, self-preservation, and others.
Furthermore, to implement a system the size of the one I work on daily, there are two obstacles that would make AI nearly useless:
1) To spec a system of the size I work on, it would take a written narrative the size of the novel “War and Peace”.
2)) You still would need a skilled developer to ‘proof’ the code.