AI critique often funnels itself into a narrow bucket: creating code blindly with AI is bad. That's easy to grant.

Adversarial testing, checking developer assumptions, refactor suggestions, small dev tools and even some guided coding all sit on the other side of the spectrum of what you can do with coding and AI. For larger and larger codebases even simple things like tracing dependencies or behavior might be greatly aided.

And the critiques reserved for that narrow bucket on the other end, blindly generating code, are too easily conflated with the rest.