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I've had better success, when using AI agents in repeated, but small and narrow doses.
It's been kinda helpful in brainstorming interfaces (and I always have to append at the end of every statement "... in the most maintainable way possible.")
It's been really helpful in writing unit tests (I follow Test Driven Development), and sometimes it picks up edge cases I would have overlooked.
I wouldn't blindly trust any of it, as all too often it's happy to just disregard any sort of error handling (unless explicitly mentioned, after the fact). It's basically like being paired up with an over-eager, under-qualified junior developer.
But, yeah, you're gonna have a bad time if you prompt it to "write me a Unix operating system in web assembly".