> AI is the new "excel spreadsheet with ridiculous formulas on top of VB script on top of pivot tables" for the non-programmers.

This is exactly it. Moving all those abominations to bespoke applications at least lets us (Actual programmers) provide them with the tools to make their solutions a bit less bad. Linters, unit tests, code formatters etc. will make even the crappiest "this would've been a complex excel spreadsheet in the past" solution at least manageable.

And if a company doesn't have a workflow for supporting these, they'll either have a whole ass problem with people doing it without telling anyone or should get on it immediately.