>One of the strangest things about AI to me is that everyone seems to have a radically different experience.

I've thought about this and I think the reason is as follows: we hold code written by ourselves to a much higher standard than code written by somebody else. If you think of AI code as your own code, then it probably won't seem very acceptable because it lacks the beauty (partly subjective as all beauty tends to be) that we put into our own code. If you think of it as a coworker's code, then it's usually alright i.e. you wouldn't be wildly impressed with that coworker but it would also not be bad enough to raise a stink.

It follows from this that it also depends on how you regard the codebase that you're working on. Do you think of it as a personal masterpiece or is it some mishmash camel by committee as the codebases at work tend to be?