Right now the programming AI that’s cheap enough for me to use is really good at fixing unbalanced parenthesis and indenting my code correctly. It more or less reduces my VIM motions by 80%. I am still doing something cool, and also still doing my laundry. Just the doing cool things part is a bit easier and less tedious. I think it makes me a fair bit more productive without robbing me of any agency.
Ive never met an IDE that automatically fixes unbalanced parens/braces or that auto-indents or completes bookkeeping comments like labeling SQL param indexes or something, this is stuff I’d use some VIM movement sequences before in Intellij or VS Code but now I just raise an eyebrow, it seems to intuit what I want, and then I press tab a few times ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s kind of like how “learn to rank” used to eat the gains of all the specific optimizations Google used to do for search - before I used to use a bunch of plugins/workflows/explicit actions for a variety of text manipulation, now I just use tab; AI subsumed many of more specific or niche features.
You need AI to do basic code formatting? That’s been a feature of IDE’s and text editors for years.