Just because AI makes code that technically works, doesn’t mean it is designing good maintainable systems.

Even if I’m using AI to write some code, I’ll often have it do it several times, because the first way it does it seems overly complex and kind of dumb. When it does this, logical errors are also harder to spot.

Knowing how to code, and having experience, will help you have opinions about these kinds of things, challenge poor ideas from the AI, and when it can’t get out of its own way you’ll maintain the option to do it yourself.