alt Hacker NewsWell "most" devs is doing a lot of work here.
I'm not sure about other devs, or even their number, but AI can most definitely NOT produce better code than I can.
I use it after I have done the hard architectural work: defining complex types and interfaces, figuring out code organization, solving thorny issues. When these are done, it's now time to hand over to the agent to apply stuff everywhere following my patterns. And even there SOTA model like Opus make silly mistakes, you need to watch them carefully. Sometimes it loses track of the big picture.
I also use them to check my code and to write bash scripts. They are useful for all these.
What you're describing is using it to do something you already can do at an expert level, and you already know exactly what you want the result to look like amd won't accept anything that deviates from what's already in your head. So like a code autocomplete. You don't really want the "intelligence" part, you want a mule.
That's fine, and useful, but you're really putting a ceiling on it's potential. Try using it for something that you aren't already an expert in. That's where most devs live.
Even expert coder antirez says "writing the code yourself is no longer sensible".
https://antirez.com/news/158