I'm not saying I don't get any use out of them, fwiw. In a lot of ways they write perfectly fine code, I'm just saying without some guidance at the macro-level they lose the forest for the trees, that's all.

Yes, definitely. It's too happy to just go and diligently work based on too little information, instead of asking questions first. And it makes many people think that they don't have to specify what they actually want, and the AI will mindread them and do what they want without being given access to docs and tools and context info that's crucial to know and they would intuitively know to hand over to a human collaborator but with AI they think they don't have to.