It might be good at analysis & review, writing documentation, git commits, etc--even if it's not good at coding.
replyAll the drudgery.
Bad AI written documentation and commits are not great, particularly when you work in a team.
replyI almost find it offensive when colleagues open a MR with an obvious slop description that's frequently inaccurate.
That said, I find AI useful for a lot of drudgery like resolving merge conflicts or splitting changes out into separate MRs.
Particularly with the latter I had issues with small models, they butchered the changes I wanted moved. Not even on the second attempt did GPT 5.4 mini manage to move 10-20 lines to another file without modifying them in the process.