Yeah I think AI often clears the “not all that bad” bar, which is pretty amazing. And it definitely has potential as a tool for generating raw material that you can take and polish up. It reminds me of how it’s being used in software development now. I was on a project recently and the code guys were using AI in a big way. They weren’t using the AI code directly — they didn’t trust it — but instead were using it to get something on the table to sort of bounce off of.
That’s why I use coding tools for. But what’s really cool about Claude Code is that it can crank out the documentation as to what the code does, that’s valuable if you are maintaining legacy code. And it frees me up from having to do the documentation on my end. I basically just use Claude Code to generate boilerplate stuff, like Data Access layers by giving it the DDL of the database...Boom! done in seconds.
And of course the boilerplate aspect applies to many industries. A huge benefit of AI is going to be freeing people from intellectual boilerplate work.