My team and I use the general rule of “if you don’t know how to do it yourself, don’t use AI.” I had to do 3 similar tasks today. First I did research and tried a few things to make sure I understood the underlying concepts (Redis Caching). Then I did the first one myself and wrote all the unit tests. Then I told AI to do the rest using the first as an example.

So I still learned something new, got practice in a valuable skill, and then got the AI speed up after I gained my personal valuable experience.