I agree fully, I use it as a bouncing off point these days to verify ideas mostly.
The problem is, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this, management is breathing down my neck to use AI for fucking everything. Write the PR with AI, write the commit message with AI, write the code, the tests, use YOUR AI to parse MY AI's email that I didn't bother proofreading and has 4 logical inconsistencies in 1 sentence. Oh this simple feature that can easily be done for cheaper, quicker and easier without AI? Throw an AI at it! We need to sell AI! "You'll be left in the dust if you don't adopt AI now!"
It comes back to my point about there being 2 camps. The one camp actually uses AI and can see their strengths & weaknesses clear as day and realizes it's not a panacea to be used for literally everything, the other is jumping headfirst into every piece of marketing slop they come across and buying into the false realities the AI companies are selling them on.
In other words, AI is my assistant, but it is MY responsibility to turn up quality, maintainable work.
However, to put things in perspective for the masses: just consider the humble calculator. It has ruined people’s ability to do mental math. AI is going to do that for writing and communication skills, problem solving skills, etc.