> You won't be 'underwhelmed' long.

"Yes, it sucks now, but believe me it won't be for long" spiel has been hyped for several years now.

Oh, don't get me wrong, these tools are amazing. But just yesterday a very small refactoring resulted in 480 fully duplicated lines in a 5000-line codebase (on top of extremely bad DB access patterns) despite all the best shamanic rituals this world has to offer [1].

So yeah, senior engineers especially use these tools daily, and keep being completely honest about their issues and shortcomings. Unlike the hype and scam artists.

[1] Oh, sorry. I meant to say skills, context engineering and management, memory, prompt engineering.