> I'm quite happy to have a tool that can assist me rather than replace me.

Another way to look at it might be that you assist the machine, rather than the machine assists you.

* Human engineers a prompt = preprocesses the messy reality.

* AI does the "creative core" of the task, comes up with a solution.

* Human post-processes the AI output back to reality, validating and actuating it.

Basically humans as a thin API layer. Who's helping who?

Right now, the prompt engineering is motivated by human desire for reproduction and survival (ultimately). But that's just incidental, the loop may be closed.