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I usually ask AI to summarize it and then I get a pretty good idea of what it was meant to do. It's just another tool to me. AI generated code sucks but it's nice when it's a quick summary.
It's a great tool. Summaries are fantastic and "what would be a good way to code this snippet" often teaches me something new.
I also find it's helpful to ask about best practices when I'm not sure.
Anything beyond short scripts, though, and you're going to spend more time than you saved fixing it.