It just totally is different from my own personal experience which leads me to believe people just are lamenting poor usage of AI tools which is very understandable.
But nuanced and effective AI use, even today with current models, is incredible for productivity in my experience
I expect it makes a big difference what kind of work one does. For me, working with a legacy codebase for firmware, with 1000s of lines of C in each module, AI is very slow (~5-10s response time) and almost none of the code is acceptable.
I do however find it useful for getting an overview of dense chunks of confusing code.
But nuanced and effective AI use, even today with current models, is incredible for productivity in my experience