The guardrails are helpful for humans as well. Its not mindless - its the difference between an obvious compiler error and a silent use after free that becomes a security vulnerability.

I for one grasp C and work with it, no big deal. AI does it well too and is probably going to eat the fun-of-coding out of my job. That's sad to me but, it's not useless. For now there's a lot of stuff we didn't maintain like docs and unit tests and thanks to ai it's kept up to date now, not that it's very important but we strive at just doing more, not being less workers.