I agree. The main issue with AI in that respect is that there's no easy way to know how much it actually did vs how much value the user added while using it.

Things made mostly with AI are terrible in the long (or even short) run, but if important phases like analysis or design are mostly done without AI, the results are great, since it saves a lot of time for specific tasks.

I feel like this is the same as any tool, with the difference being that someone can fully hide that they used AI without it being initially evident, or lazy people use it as a shortcut to avoid learning. As long as you got all the base knowledge right and guide the AI yourself instead of letting it control you, it has potential.

Also, AI slop is so common nowadays that there's a bias towards them and all projects that use AI get labeled as bad by default, which doesn't help either.