I think the specific examples of the first group there undersell it. They make it sound like the group isn't getting a lot of power out of the AI. The things I use it as a tool for include
- Peer reviews. Not the only peer review of code, but a "first pass" to point out anything that I might have missed
- Implementing relatively simple changes; ones where the "how" doesn't require a lot of insight into long term planning
- Smart auto-complete (and this one is huge)
- Searching custom knowledge bases (I use Obsidian and have an AI tied into it to search through my decade+ of notes)
- Smart search of the internet; describing the problem I'm trying to solve and then asking it to find places that discuss that type of thing
- I rarely use it to clean up emails, but it does happen sometimes. My emails tend to be very technical, and "cleaning them up" usually requires I spend time figuring out what information not to include
- Peer reviews. Not the only peer review of code, but a "first pass" to point out anything that I might have missed
- Implementing relatively simple changes; ones where the "how" doesn't require a lot of insight into long term planning
- Smart auto-complete (and this one is huge)
- Searching custom knowledge bases (I use Obsidian and have an AI tied into it to search through my decade+ of notes)
- Smart search of the internet; describing the problem I'm trying to solve and then asking it to find places that discuss that type of thing
- I rarely use it to clean up emails, but it does happen sometimes. My emails tend to be very technical, and "cleaning them up" usually requires I spend time figuring out what information not to include