Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me

I have found AI generated code to be overly verbose and complex. It usually generates 100 lines and I take a few of them and adapt them to what I want. The best cases I've found for using it are asking specific technical questions, helping me learn a new code language, having it generate ideas on how to solve a problem for brainstorming. It also does well with bounded algorithmic problems that are well specified i.e. write a function that takes inputs and produces outputs according to xyz. I've found it's usually sorely lacking in domain knowledge (i.e. it is not an expert on the iOS SDK APIs, not an expert in my industry, etc.)

My heuristic: the more you're solving a solved problem that is just tedious work and memory intensive take a crack at using AI. It will probably one shot your solution with minimal tweaks required.

The more you deviate from that, the more you have to step in.

But given that I constantly forget how to open a file in Python, I still have a use for it. It basically supplanted Stackoverflow.