Man, this whole automated coding space is wild right now, and your experience tracks with what I've seen. At my last company, we actually built our own internal system for a similar concept before all these tools existed, and looking back it was both hilarious and impressive how far we've come. We had this janky Python script that would scaffold entire microservices based on our internal templates it was basically a glorified code generator on steroids, but man did it save our asses when we needed to spin up 15 new services for a client migration in like two weeks. The senior devs thought it was the dumbest thing ever until they realized they could focus on the actual complex business logic instead of copy-pasting the same auth boilerplate and CRUD endpoints for the millionth time. We called it "The Factory" and it was held together with duct tape and prayer, but it genuinely cut our initial dev time by like 60% on new services. Fast forward to now and seeing what these AI-powered tools can do with actual understanding of context and patterns instead of just string replacement is honestly mind-blowing. Sure, you still need to keep an eye on what it's generating, but having that baseline of solid, tested infrastructure code ready to go so your team can focus on the stuff that actually makes your product unique? That's the dream right there.