Comment by m11a

"stuck" is a bit strong of a term. 6 months ago I remember preferring to write even Python code myself because Copilot would get most things wrong. My most successful usage of Copilot was getting it to write CRUD and tests. These days, I can give Claude Sonnet in Cursor's agent mode a high-level Rust programming task (e.g. write a certain macro that would allow a user to define X) and it'll modify across my codebase, and generally the thing just works.

At current rate of progress, I really do think in another 6 months they'll be pretty good at tackling technical debt and overcomplication, at least in codebases that have good unit/integration test coverage or are written in very strongly typed languages with a type-friendly structure. (Of course, those usually aren't the codebases needing significant refactoring, but I think AIs are decent at writing unit tests against existing code too.)