You're there to make sure the code works. Refusing to let AI code is like a janitor refusing to use a vacuum. They're not taking your job any more than the robot vacuums.

AI opens up new forms of debugging. You can trace through a bug on the OS level and understand what it's really happening - we traced some bugs to how Android handles wifi based around location access on different versions. We give it a 20k line log to reproduce the exact flow when certain bugs happen. We make it write hypotheses on why it's happening and how to fix it, and break that down into logs.

There's plenty of engineering work to do with production code, especially on front end where you're dealing with different manufacturers, multiple cultures (some using , or . as decimal separators), RTL languages, broken abstraction layers, hardware permissions, etc, etc.

Someone needs to fully understand the big picture around how all these pieces go together. AI is still poor with writing larger things. Your uniqueness is in how quickly you can pick up the big technical picture.