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To the extent I have grown more comfortable, it's accepting that the AI is usually wrong and giving up on trying unless it's obvious and short. I won't "argue" with it, I just discard and do it myself. I'll also click "review my code" and give it a chance to highlight mistakes. Again it is frequently wrong. But once it did catch an inconsistency that I know would have been frustrating when it eventually reared its head.
The thing that I'm thinking of turning off is code completion with tab. Problem is that the lag means I didn't know if the tab key is going to do a normal thing or if by the time I hit it an AI suggestion pops up and I have to undo the unexpected modification. Also sometimes the suggestions linger and make the actual code hard to read long after I already decided to ignore the suggestion.
Yesterday was a fair amount of tab completing through excessively boilerplate crap thanks to AI, but most days it's next to useless as I am in low boilerplate scenarios. Some frameworks and languages make you type a novel to do something very common, and AI helps with those. I tend to avoid those but I didn't have a choice yesterday. Even then the AI made some very bad suggestions, so I have to be in the lookout at all times.