Here's the problem though. For most people AI is nothing more than a chatbot or Image generator. Less than 1% of the population is even smart enough to use AI in the way you're describing so for most people in their reality, its a walking parrot.
OK then give Astra or Fable a 10,000-line program, ask it to debug it, ask it to understand what's going on, ask it to make revisions. It's certainly not perfect. I'm bullish on human expertise fwiw. But it sure as hell is way more than a "stochastic parrot."