> Its code. If it doesn’t run, you ask it to reconsider

It is perfectly possible to have code that runs without errors but gives a wrong answer. And you may not even realise it’s wrong until it bites you in production.

I haven't found a single instance where it saved me any significant amount of time. In all cases I still had to rewrite the whole thing myself, or abandon endeavor.

And a few times the amount of time I spent trying to coax a correct answer out of AI trumped any potential savings I could've had

While I agree, I saw it abused in this way a lot, in the sense that the code did what it was supposed to do in a given scenario but was obviously flawed in various was so it was just sitting there waiting for a disaster.