I fall in the junior category, but with more experience prior to becoming a certified full stack dev than most juniors. I was a sys admin for a decade where I taught myself how to code to simplify my job. Plus I had 1 year at university 15 years ago. I use my company provided license with AI very sparingly and never let it implement code. Mostly I use it like a glorified stack overflow when I run into a problem that I can't work out by myself. Usually, it will suggest some code that's not good, but it's enough to highlight a concept I'm ignorant to and then I can do what I need. If there's a block of code that has something that I don't understand, I can highlight it and ask it to explain. It's usually pretty good at listing out what something is doing or at least supposed to do.

I would love if AI disappeared immediately, but it's not going to happen. If someone is using, it should be used as a tool and not a replacement. If you can't do the thing that it's doing, then you shouldn't be use it to do that thing. I probably ask it questions less than once a week, and again, never put in code that I don't understand what it does and why.

I have a good friend that's a senior dev at a company using Claude code. He's become an AI code reviewer, but much to my dismay likes it. He's vibe coding his own fuck around app with it and it's writing the backend in C#, a language he doesn't know being a frontend dev. It's so infuriating to me that someone that I know to be intelligent is so damn stupid.