I work in tech and we are encouraged to use it every day. I have a daughter that writes software and she uses it every day. I don't want to get into a whole explanation of the state of AI in my limited sphere and all the things that it can and could be used for because that would take forever and I'm no expert.
A cool thing about AI in the software / application realm is that - for people that have a good or novel idea that don't have the coding experience, the time, or both, you can get something usable or pretty close to it just by describing what you're trying to accomplish and what the inputs are. AI can turn that into code to implement your idea.
Heard a story a month or so ago of a guy who's wife had been using Quicken to handle the accounting of her small, home business. Quicken had recently switched to a subscription model which would run their costs up. He started an AI session, pointed it to her Quicken database files, told it what sorts of calculations, fields, reports, etc he wanted, and within a couple hours of back and forth, the AI generated code to basically do what Quicken had been doing. Cost him a comparatively small amount in AI tokens to accomplish that, and now he owns the software.
Another example at work just yesterday - someone had some code that wasn't well documented and the original spec was also lacking. They had AI read the code, then retroactively write the spec to reflect what the code had implemented, and organize the spec format in a way that looked like some example specs the person also fed to the AI.
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