- For basic autocompletion is ok, on lazy days I even find myself often thinking "why the ai is not proposing a solution to this stupid method yet?".
- For complicated coding stuff is worthless, I've lost a lot of time trying to fix some ai generated code to end up writing the stuff again, so I rely on google/stackoverflow for that kind of research.
- For architectural solutions or some research like looking for the right tool to do something I found it quite useful as it often present options I didn't consider or didn't know in the first place, so I can take them also in consideration.
Apart from marketing, I used to work as a MS consultant for many years (10+), focused mainly on creating custom no-code and almost-no-code tools for business, and the investment was usually lower in the short term, with shorter dev times, but in the long run when the company started to use the solution in the day to day, and started needing more specific tools, no-code solutions tend to be way less flexible and end up with dodgy patches to implement functionality that could have been done in a more maintainable if was a more coded solution from the start.
To sum up, and on the field I was working on, it's hard for the client to have a clear understanding of the lack of flexibility that will may face in the near future, and usually ends up on hands of the sales people and what the company providing the solution is focused on.
I was in that boat myself and totally agree, building a business was fun and exciting, but stressful in the same amount and not taking much (if any) of the money home for the good of the business wasn't helping.
In the end, after several years in the startup storm, I sold it out, landed a well paid job with cool people in my team and I'm pretty happy with my current situation, plus wife is also happy because I'm working from home so I'm always around.
- For basic autocompletion is ok, on lazy days I even find myself often thinking "why the ai is not proposing a solution to this stupid method yet?".
- For complicated coding stuff is worthless, I've lost a lot of time trying to fix some ai generated code to end up writing the stuff again, so I rely on google/stackoverflow for that kind of research.
- For architectural solutions or some research like looking for the right tool to do something I found it quite useful as it often present options I didn't consider or didn't know in the first place, so I can take them also in consideration.