@tk reading is way faster than writing and the total time to working code is lower.

I'm not exactly trying to defend it, just telling you my experience.

It's sometimes frustrating because it will work really good all day then you give it a particular problem and you struggle with it over and over to get the right output and eventually give up. I'd say that happens about one out of ten times.

The real advantage is sometimes I literally just can't figure out the right or best way to do something and I ask it and with some back and forth get the answer. I had a problem I left alone for over a year and then came back to it and fought with AI for a while but eventually found a solution that worked that I never could have done simply by reading documentation or blogs.