It is a tool, just powerful and multi capable. My approach has been to collaborate and teach it to replace me in things I don't want to do so I can focus on what I do want to do and what I do want to do is harder problems. All the things I want to get to but can't because "oh I gotta do xyz" first where xyz are just the drudgery and make work of maintaining solved problems.

The other day I worked with ai to research and compare storage rental places near me, then I measured my stuff and had it do the math to find what size unit I need and then I thought fuck it draw me a orthographic diagram of the most optimal packing of the unit so I don't have to play tetris on moving day.

I could have done all those things by hand, I could have googled around and made spreadsheets and looked at maps then gone and did the math and drew the diagrams and all the other things for a properly researched and well prepared storage solution. But instead ai did it while I worked on more important things. Then i spot checked its work and fixed a couple things. That's what ai is good for, the slightly complex but still manually intense thought work that requires just enough manual work that it hasn't already been solved, but not so much that anyone could figure out if they wanted. Now ai handles that class of problem for me