I think that something in between works.

I have AI build self-contained, smallish tasks and I check everything it does to keep the result consistent with global patterns and vision.

I stay in the loop and commit often.

Looks to me like the problem a lot of people are having is that they have AI do the whole thing.

If you ask it "refactor code to be more modern", it might guess what you mean and do it in a way you like it or not, but most likely it won't.

If you keep tasks small and clearly specced out it works just fine. A lot better than doing it by hand in many cases, specially for prototyping.