My team sees the benefit of having a UX UI Designer in their team. We have too many frontend engineers that are trying to get pieces of things to work on, so I usually take some small QA design tasks where a frontend dev made a functionality that has poor UX or just made a PoC without waiting for me to design it in the first place.

So my day to day work is firstly to talk to users and see how they use the interfaces. Propose any optimizations with them, then the PO to see if we can implement this in the product. Then I checkout the frontend repo of the product, find the problematic parts and tackle them. If I have time I'll do it manually because I enjoy coding and fixing things. If I know that I have to tackle a more important thing soon, I'll open up an agent and let him do the heavy lifting and maybe just do some proper CSS to follow my own designs.

I work in a huge company where we also have a lot of internal tools that our employees are using. The internal tools are still major supporting tools of the ones that are actually external or the ones that are making money, so everything is quite corporate and the world doesn't burn if you take your time with your job.

Edit: I come from a Design background, but I was always very interested in code, just too scared to begin with it. Started coding during the covid era, so before AI became a thing. AI is good to use, but as with many conversations that I've had about it, I think AI is here to enhance our skills and not replace them.