My experience as a senior software engineer is that generative AI is an incredible productivity boost for engineers that know what they need to implement. If I need to write a new service, I'm going to be able to do that extremely quickly with Claude Code or some other agentic tooling as long as I know what I want.

However, generative AI should be banned for leadership or product owners or anyone on the requirements specification end of the Jira ticket. I'm fine with them using LLMs to read documents and learn, but generative AI specifically in the hands of these folks seems to be a net productivity drag on organizations.

I am so tired of 1,500 word Jira tickets that are over-specified to death with requirements that nobody is actually interested in and I have to spend exorbitant amounts of times just trying to distill out the functionality that the requestor is actually looking for. And these logorrheic nightmare tickets end up spawning all kinds of other unnecessary downstream work.