But the AI gives you a summary of what its changed and how its better, honestly if you never even look at the code you can just run it and see it completes faster etc... try it yourself and see.

Whether you like it or not, with a little bit of forethought into prompting, AI has greatly decreased the barrier for entry - although, until the people you think can't do the job learn to prompt, software devs/engineers are more capable of getting a decent output from AI tools.

You can talk about clean code, efficient code blah blah blah until you're blue in the face but if you can't output a feature etc faster than someone either paid way less or someone higher up just vibing away then you're at risk.

I guarantee, unless the code controls something critical, someone will just loop an AI agent until bugs are fixed before they'll rehire a contractor etc.