You can’t have it both ways though, if an AI can’t hold copyright and is merely a tool being used by a human engineer who bears legal responsibility and ownersh

You can’t have it both ways though, if an AI can’t hold copyright and is merely a tool being used by a human engineer who bears legal responsibility and ownership, then the concept of “code that was not written by yourself” is completely incoherent. It is impossible for code to not be written by yourself under that view because it is just a tool. The fact that it’s mad-libs autocomplete instead of normal intellij auto-complete is totally irrelevant.