You mention one fabulous application of AI-supported coding that the article didn't touch upon. It's anything where the target customer group is me. All sorts of automation, pet projects, and serious stuff that improves research, too.

The context of the article is product development, with a bias toward the commercial part of the ecosystem. And of course, as any picture painted with broad strokes, some generalizations were inevitable.

As a scientist, you definitely are familiar with the weight (or lack thereof) of anecdotal evidence. Unless the claim is "it can never work" or "it always works," my individual experience is just that--an individual experience.