"But then I look at what these tools actually manage to do, and am disillusioned: these tools can be worse than useless, making us net-negative productive." It

"But then I look at what these tools actually manage to do, and am disillusioned: these tools can be worse than useless, making us net-negative productive." It starts from this premise right in the first paragraph. And goes on to illustrate an example that proves their point ("Let's pick one of the best possible examples of AI-generated code changes."). anyways, it doesn't matter that much :) we could be both right.