"We need formalized processes, and proven, repeatable control mechanisms to enforce the quality of whatever is coming out of these tools. These do not exist yet. They might emerge one day, but they have not yet3. Until then, I won’t just lay into it blindly. If you consider yourself a software engineer, you should probably give it a minute too."
The same argument cuts both ways. I have seen some horrid code (that I have had to fix) made by humans.
Yeah, but that bad code also had the chance to be caught and fixed in review. If you get rid of reviewing code (human-written, AI-written, squirrel-written, whatever) you get rid of that chance. Hence the not trusting it blindly part.