As a programmer I feel that software development as in "designing and building software products" can be still be fun with AI. But what absolutely isn't fun is feeding requirements written by someone else to ChatGPT / Copilot and then just doing plumbing / QA work to make sure it works. The kind of work junior devs would typically do feels devalued now.

The thing I like the most about AI coding is how it lowers the threshold of energy and motivation needed to start a task. Being able to write a detailed spec of what I want, or even discussing an attack plan (for high-level architecture or solution design) and getting an initial draft is game-changing for me. I usually take it from there, because as far as I can tell, it sucks after that point anyway.

This makes sense for sure. Have you been getting good results with something more complicated than basic CRID type applications?

o1-preview is the best model I've tried thus far, but I wouldn't say it's even capable of putting a basic CRUD app together, without constant coaxing major adjustments and on my part.