My current job involves exactly this (thanks not on IE) and AI is, as you said, absolutely bad at it.
And I’m saying this as someone who kind of adopted AI pretty early for code and who learned how to prompt it.
The best way to make AI worth your time is to make it work towards a predictable output. TDD is really good for this : you write your test cases and you make the AI do the work.
But when you want a visual result ? It will have no feedback of any clue, will always answer "Ok, I solved this" while making things worse. Even if the model is visual, giving it screenshots as feedback is useless too.
And I’m saying this as someone who kind of adopted AI pretty early for code and who learned how to prompt it.
The best way to make AI worth your time is to make it work towards a predictable output. TDD is really good for this : you write your test cases and you make the AI do the work.
But when you want a visual result ? It will have no feedback of any clue, will always answer "Ok, I solved this" while making things worse. Even if the model is visual, giving it screenshots as feedback is useless too.