There are papers that are pro and con. It's a new tech - we're still figuring out how to use it. It's gotten a lot better than a year or two ago though.

It's definitely helped me get things done a lot faster. You can point to "that one study everyone does" and tell me "no it's not" but honestly, it is.

I'll give you an example - I had to write a small bash script to fix home directory ownership on a server because somebody borked it and some critical jobs weren't launching properly. Just something to read /etc/passwd, parse out the owner and home dir and chown-R $user $home. Dozens of user dirs so quicker to just script it.

Time was of the essence. Claude had a script in ~6 seconds. Yeah - I could have written it - but not that fast. I validated the output and gave it a run. All's good.

You can insult me as "not good developer" or whatever you need to do to make yourself feel better - your opinion of me is irrelevant. But these tools are pretty damn good at what they do if you use them properly. "Properly" being the key word here. They are tools not employees so you need the proper critical thinking to apply them effectively.