I use AI coding assistants daily, and whenever there is a task that those tools cannot do correctly/quickly enough so that I need to fallback to editing things by myself, I spend a bit of time thinking what is so special about the tasks.

My observation is that LLMs do repetitive, boring tasks really well, like boilerplate code and common logic/basic UI that thousands of people have already done. Well, in some sense, jobs where developers who spend a lot of time writing generic code is already at risk of being outsourced.

The tasks that need a ton of tweaking or not worth asking AI at all are those that are very specific to a specific product and need to meet specific requirements that often come from discussions or meetings. Well, I guess in theory if we had transcripts for everything, AI could write code like the way you want, but I doubt that's happening any time soon.

I have since become less worried about the pace AI will replace human programmers -- there is still a lot that these tools cannot do. But for sure people need to watch out and be aware of what's happening.