> The only thing people should look at are peer reviewed studies, lots of them ideally, and with no conflict of interest.
"Ignore your own direct experience, only research papers matter" is certainly a take.
The beautiful thing about the current generation of tools is that they are so incredibly cheap relative to historical tools intended to improve engineering productivity. You can't just run out and pick up CASE tools for less than ~$CAR to ~$HOUSE. A pro subscription to whichever AI tool you want to try is $20.
Ignore research, try them, if you have success, use them. There's no dogma here. Just empiricism.