I'm seeing a lot of takes like this - I'm finding the opposite. AI takes care of a lot of the boring parts. The boiler-plate, the connections. But it leaves me to think about how things should be implemented and capture higher level problems earlier.
Instead of leaving the AI to figure out the right way to query something from the db, I can flag a potential n+1 issue from the very start.
When we talk about the proliferation of AI-code and the "death of SaaS" it's tools like this that stand out put me. Before this would be a small line-time and accepted as part of your development costs.. now it's something you can handle in-house. The bar for paying for software is getting higher and higher, as it should.
