I feel that for large basic scaffolding or a quick spin up of a framework or application structure is a great use of AI coding tools. Currently getting the tools to hold a lot of code in memory and extrapolate on the functionality tends to lead to a fall off of actually working code in my experience. I also know that using the tools to help solve a problem you are stuck on or something that you can not seem to get right is a good use. To prevent you from spending hours and hours trying to figure out something that a few prompts to an AI tool and some quick testing could figure out. IMHO I feel that current AI tools are great for moving things along in specific situations. Feeling like you're loosing your edge is natural when a tool comes along and shifts the way a job is completed. I feel that if you can understand the code the AI tool writes and you can test and implement the code then it's the same as having a someone else with more expierane write the code.