Very, very senior dev here who has never taken a shortcut in his life. Don't mean to sound like a prick but you're doing it wrong. You have to find your own path through this stuff. It works, promise. I was in your shoes six weeks ago.
A big problem is that these codebases rot. Agents move incredibly fast at first, but then as you pay less attention (or perhaps no attention at all) to the architecture, they slowly fall to bits. So then you decide, I'll use AI to rewrite it! And it gets better for a while until, well, you get it.
That's not to say there isn't value here, there absolutely is, just — chill. A little.
If AI is as good as it being marketed as, you shouldn't even be able to hold it wrong!
“No true Scotsman” would require me to redefine “senior developer” to exclude people who disagree with me. I didn’t.
And “you’re holding it wrong” is a strange objection to a tool that, like Git, rewards learning how to use it. The question is whether that learning pays off.