Now here’s the fun part: In a really restrictive enterprise environment where you’ve got unit tests with 85% code coverage requirements, linters and static typing, these AI programming assistants actually perform even better than they do when given a more “greenfield” MVP-ish assignment with lots of room for misinterpretation. The constant “slamming into guardrails” keeps them from hallucinating and causes them to correct themselves when they do.

The more annoying boxes your job makes you tick, the more parts of the process that make you go “ugh, right, that”, the more AI programming assistants can help you.