Note that asking this way is pretty much biased in favor of AI.
For example, yes, I can confirm that AI tools occasionally help my workflow. I gave up on letting it do anything "interesting", but for stuff like "update all calls to this function to add an extra argument" it works rather well (not 100% though).
Of course... this is only relevant because of a lack of working IDE refactoring tools. Which thanks to AI will also never be made or fixed in the future at all, because "you can just use the AI".
So yes, AI does make me as a developer more productive. But less productive than if I had proper refactoring tools available.
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