AI is a tool and like all tools, it depends on how you use it and who uses it. Not everybody's a software engineer. I talked to a software architect who was very happy about AI agents because they could design and architect a solution and let it be implemented right there. They didn't need a software engineer (their words).

Just because you use an AI agent doesn't make you dumber or make you turn off your mind. After being encouraged to use AI agents at work, I'm come to appreciate that even with them there are vastly different levels of usage.