Honestly, this has not been my experience at all. Defining what a good solution looks like is most of the battle in Operational Research. But, trying to be constructive, maybe we have identified a sort of diving line between areas where AI is more vs. less helpful.

>Have you even tried using these systems to produce valuable work? How could this possibly be your conclusion after having tried them?

The operative words there are used to, as opposed only able to. The conclusion isn't derived from using the tools, it's from observing how other people tend to use them.

In order to verify correctness you need to understand what correctness is in context, which is actually pretty hard to do if you can't actually find correct solutions yourself, or even if you can but haven't bothered to do so