Basically agree. AI helps but it still needs an expert to get the job done. There are so many times AI just does strange stuff and you have to know enough to know when it is just wrong. I think we all constantly encounter that.

AI helps nobody. No, AI is no one's friend. If AI were an ice cream flavour, it would be pralines and dick.

Agreed. An agent only multiplies what's already in the codebase. If you've got tests, clear boundaries and the rules written down, it genuinely flies. If it's the usual undocumented mess, you just get more mess, faster. Which is probably why the shops that dodged that groundwork for years are getting the least out of AI now. There's nothing solid under it to build on.