In the trenches I've been making investments in being able to host and run our own open weight models as I wait for the inevitable rug pull from the big AI companies. Surprisingly if you use the right combination of models and some specific used equipment you can achieve good results.
I'm finding that my use of AI agents is analogous to how droids are used in the Star Wars universe. They build some stuff and do grunt work I'd rather not do.

@mike This is something I'm accepting as well.

I code for a living and I _loathe_ AI, but you know what I loathe more? Is writing unit tests for my code, and I am not stupid. I know what wins there.