Use AI like you would use any other tool: to work for you. There are all sorts of things you can probably do manually that just go a bit faster or more efficient with AI. It's not that different to using an electrical drill vs. a manually operated one. You end up with holes in both cases. But one achieves that a bit faster and neater.
Nobody is going to pay you for your artisanally crafted CSS code or whatever you were coding manually until last year. If you can do it faster/better than the AI, good for you. But it's not a contest and possibly your days of maintaining that lead might be numbered.
In the end, as long as the UI is styled alright, nobody will care that you pieced it together manually for hours and hours. More importantly, people are not going to pay you more for it than they'll pay the next guy getting a similar result in an hour of prompting AIs. They'll want you to move faster and do more.
That's what better tools do, they just cause people to expect more, better, and faster. And their expectations expand until they match the limitations of the new tools.
People seem to have this mental block where somehow the amount of stuff we ship is going to be a constant in the universe and we'll all be out of work and descend in despair. That's something that in the history of our species inventing tools has never really happened. I don't see any reason why AI would change that. Sure, there's a lot more we can do now. And it's a lot cheaper now. So we can now have a bit more of our proverbial cake and eat it. People will push this as far as they can and will want more and more of the good stuff.
And they'll need help getting all that stuff built. One way is a painful process of slowly prompting things together. Most people lack the skills to do that, don't know what to ask for and are in any case busy doing other things. That job, building stuff using tools, is still a job that needs doing. I'm quite busy currently doing that.
good luck with ignoring what's under the hood. One day you will experience how it does translate to the things people pay for.
Some people are mastering the use of skills and guard rails. I have a few decades of experience to lean on, which seems to help. My guard rails tend to capture what I appreciate in software. AI tools seems to be pretty much a shit in, shit out kind of thing. If I want better output, I put some work in it. Mostly all you need to do is ask for better and be able to articulate what better means for you. Of course that requires understanding what that is. It's early days for a lot of people. Even some of the more experienced prompters have only a few months to at best a year of experience developing software that way. Early last year was when Claude Code first appeared. And mostly the tools didn't really get usable on non trivial code bases until later in the year.
Anyway, there are a lot of people producing mediocre software (with or without AI). That's pretty much a constant. I remember people using Visual Basic. Exact same thing. The problem isn't the tools but the people using them. There's a learning curve and most people are still behind that curve.