Fast and productive is very different than good. I'd probably agree with a description of AI code as the fast food of code, but I certainly wouldn't call Taco Bell "better" if the wedding caterer showed up with it.
I think you're looking for lexical gaps where there are none. If you're not using LLM's while coding, you're behind the industry. While GenAI may be overhyped, it's not a fad, and if you don't incorporate it into your (what I assume is a) software based job you're going to fall behind your coworkers. I can't list every positive adjective here but it's an incredibly useful tool which everyone should be using.
I'm using them, but frankly only for things where my quality bar is lower. I've seen little evidence that anyone is routinely getting work that's comparable to competent humans, excepting incredibly recent work like Joshua Rodgers' [0]. And I'll note that even Joshua's work was mainly successful in identifying issues, but actually fixing them involved much more human intervention.
