As a professional developer, same. It saves me so much time. My colleagues also use it. Lemmy is a bubble just as much as (or maybe even more so than) Reddit. Mention a use for AI and you’ll end up downvoted to hell. You just said “use AI” and people jump to “this guy switched off his brain and does nothing but blindly copy-paste ChatGPT output into his assignments.”

I remember a teacher telling me the same thing about calculators way back when. “If you’re not able to do the calculation yourself you won’t know if the calculator’s answer is right or not”