Pfft… it’s been fine for the last 10 years.

He’s half right. I enjoy being busy, as long as I’m doing things I want when I want. What my employer wants me to do is rarely on the top of that list.

Bad & meh engineers get praised because they “waste” less time directing ai and reviewing output - barely working is good enough in the race to market.

I’ve seen things as serious as a privileged user for one customer having admin access to all customers being discovered during the last minute pentest literally days before the planned product launch. That product is supposed(and likely will) to move 250M USD for customers in the second half of this year. Under the current policy at my day job, coming all the way from the top, reviewing ai generated code at all should be an exception reserved for 0.1% most critical code. Yes, in finance.

Your app / website is most likely not big enough to rely on icons instead of text for buttons. Same applies to most other unique UI choices.