Exactly!

I've been working on a side project that I started in 2020. If I wanted to implement a new feature it was: - Wait for regular work hours to wrap up around 5 or 6 PM - Get dinner and rest / relax until around 8 or 9 PM - Open up the editor, think about the problem, Google things, read stack overflow which gets it 95% of the way there, Google more, dig deeper into the docs finally find what I needed - Write a function, make some progress, run into another roadblock, repeat previous point - Look up and it's now 1AM. I should write tests for this, but I'll add that to the backlog - Backlog only ever grows

Now with AI I describe what I want, it does the grunt work likely cleaner than I ever could, adds tests and warns me about potential edge cases.

I don't know about 10x, but I'm releasing new features that my client cares about faster and I have more time to myself.

All of the negativity around AI writing code sounds like people who would say "You can't trust the compiler, you need to write the machine code yourself"

Will AI fuck up? Yes But I'm the human in the chair guiding it, and learning myself how better to prompt it to keep it from those fuck ups with every iteration.