>if I can just vibe and shrug when someone asks why production is down globally

You're pretty high up in the development, decision and value-addition chain, if YOU are the responsible go-to person for these questions. AI has no impact on your position.

Naa, I'm just a programmer. Experience may vary depending on company and country, for me this has been true from tiny startups to global corporations.

Tangential, I don't even know what "responsible" in the corporate world means anymore, it seems to me no one is really responsible for anything. But the one thing that's almost certain is that I will fix the damn thing if I made it go boom.