for every article that says wow theres a contradicting article that says no it doesnt work.
minor nitpick, the former likes to has magic sauce workflow and accuses the later of not employing such a thing...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades

i mean. i think its somewhere in-between. its useful. but nowhere as useful as the zealots think.
again i think the ones that serve limited function are probably going to be the ones that work best.
what surprises me a little bit is when they're not so good at programming. for i believe if language models cant get programming right then theres very little else they are going to be able to get right...