As per my root comment, if you ignore a lot of the marketing of AI and view it as just a tool, then I agree with your point about it doing what you tell it but I still want the tool to help me avoid making mistakes (and I’d like it to work quite hard at that - much harder, it seems, than it currently does). And probably to the extent that it refuses to run dangerous commands for me and tells me to copy/paste them and run them myself if I really want to take the risk.

If, however, we swallow the marketing hook, line and sinker: then yeah, I want the AI to behave like the experienced engineer it’s supposed to be.