Not gonna lie, this is kind of the answer I was aiming for when I wrote this. Never did I say that AI is bad or shouldn't be used ever. I just think that it's value must be understood fully, whether you're using it for coding or just need to rephrase 2 sentences for an essay.
This was the point that drove me to write the article in the first place. I think that there should be some kind of knowledge threshold before you can use assistants. I think the same point can be applied to why students need to know how to calculate some equation without a calculator.