By far my favorite Stephen King books. There are some rough parts for sure, but overall they're very good. That reminds me I haven't read them for a few years.
Personally, I use LLMs as a time saving tool. It writes the code I tell it to write then I carefully review all of it, every line. It saves about 50% of my time, which is very useful. Like you, I've been coding for 40 years in a variety of languages.
I write code for a large non profit and we quite frankly simply don't have the manpower (or money) to do all the projects we want to do that will improve people's lives. So it's a reasonable compromise. AI never touches our codebase and never has access to it at all.
It's a tool, like any other. Anyone who sets up a table saw to run by itself without careful monitoring and expertise would be fired immediately. Same thing for "vibe coders".
Try :quit!