Being a consultant / programmer with feet on the ground, eh, hands on the keyboard: some orgs let us use some AI tools, others do not. Some projects are predominantly new code based on recent tech (React); others include maintaining legacy stuff on windows server and proprietary frameworks. AI is great on some tasks, but unavailable or ignorant about others. Some projects have sharp requirements (or at least, have requirements) whereas some require 39 out of 40 hours a week guessing at what the other meat-based intelligences actually want from us.

What «programming» actually entails, differs enormously; so does AI’s relevance.