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I'll offer a few cents which is probably what my input is literally worth as a layman, but I'm now able to build full-stack apps, soup to nuts, as someone who's entire coding experience to date was a helloworld in a python tutorial when I was a child. 

Cursor/Claude et al can now one shot entire single purpose apps, and errors seem to be on a downward trend. The N hours lost untangling code don't take into account the time saved in construction; but keeping that in mind how much time is spent in debug?

What's the saying? 50% of time spent in programming... (read more)

To add to this, I'm a forecaster on metaculus and I can now do dozens if not hundred of poisson/monte carlo/ets simulations every hour when before I often needed the hour to do two or three because I had to do small tweaks that took me quite some time before and that I now delegate to AI. I learned python a year ago but clearly I'm a newbie, it has changed my capabilities significantly.