>If I still have to do a ton of work to clean up whatever the AI shits out then it might as well have done nothing.

Either you find what AI produces is in general "shit" (which is not realistic to think for latest LLMs, but ok).

Or you take a knee-jerk all or nothing black and white attitude to it.

"If you have to do a ton of work"? Is that work much less than what you'd have done without any AI assistance?