> At work, the devs up the chain now do everything with AI – not just coding – then task me with cleaning it up.

This has to be the most thankless job for the near future. It's hard and you get about as much credit as the worker who cleans up the job site after the contractors are done, even though you're actually fixing structural defects.

And god forbid you introduce a regression bug cleaning up some horrible redundant spaghetti code.

Near future being the key term here imo. The entire task I mentioned was not an engineering problem, but a communication issue. The two project owners could have just talked to each other about the design, then coded it correctly in the first pass, obviating the need for the code janitor. Once orgs adapt to this new workflow, they’ll replace the code janitors with much cheaper Claude credits.

Lol you may be on to something there.. 'a code janitor'.