I am desperate for the tooling that puts me back in charge. And just has the models as advisor. In which case the "smart level" is just a dial.

I'm probably going to have to make it myself.

Some ide’s already have this. In zed you can stick it “ask” mode.

Being able to use it as a rubber duck while it can also read the code works quite well.

There are a few APIs at work I have never worked on and the person that wrote them no longer works with us so AI fills that gap well.