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Exactly. There's a Dunning-Kreuger effect here where if you don't know what you're doing, it looks like AI just miraculously does what you would have wanted it to do if you were smart enough to craft a good prompt.
But if you know what you're doing, you know what tasks it is worth using AI for, and then you craft a good prompt, get a lot of valuable processing done by the AI, and then review, fine-tune and polish the rest.
Funny enough even that second part involves a lot of chaos out due to Dunning-Kreuger effect yet again.
I had 4 different friends go "I am experienced enough in programming, I can use it responsibly" during group projects with some paraphrasing at my uni.
For context those friends ranged from juniors to freshman. We were pretty skilled but NOWHERE near that experienced.
It's Dunning-Kreuger, so when you understand the complexities within the area of your expertise you'll doubt the likelihood of effective automation using statistical brute force.
I'm not going to argue that take on "Fuck AI" but come on man, that's just not reasonable.
What's unreasonable about doubting automation for topics that a person has enough knowledge about to doubt their own mastery?