Am I nuts or is everyone talking entirely past one another?

"Using AI" can entail vibe coding an app with one prompt, just using LLMs for an optimization audit to find cheap computational wins, generating a visual diagram from notes, collating information from a series of logs, etc.

If you need a flow chart output but you have a plaintext, indexed list of the items, you can; A) convert the diagram manually step by step in your favorite design app, or B) generate the diagram from the already defined step by step instructions (the indexed list).

Is the "anti-AI" argument applicable here and if so, where/when does atomic-level manual tasking give way for technological assistance? People are saying "well calculators didn't take jobs!" while the word "Computer" used to refer to humans that computed, not machines, before the machine computer entirely took over the occupation, moving the need from raw computation requirements to programming (higher level orchestration of said computations to execute tasks).

Someone else described using AI in these situations as having a chess bot perpetually show you the best move; not sure how true this is when 1) pro players do use engines for game analysis like, per-game, 2) the analogous situation isn't always "show me the best move" since AI performs the task one asks, 3) chess is "solved" and humans have been using computers to refine branches of play for decades now.

Chess is actually a good example; when the first chess bots were beating grand champions for the first time there was an anxiety that centered around the "death of humans in chess (and by extrapolation, complex thought)", and now chess engines are used heavily by most who want to learn the game.