I've written bad/poorly designed code and made decisions I regret and have had coworkers use that bad code to defend their design choices because the agent said it was the best available option.

Design documents also let the engineering team who will be reviewing your code get a high level understanding of all the pieces you're sending them. If you've ever worked at a large company or codebase it's insane to say these docs aren't helpful.

Then if people send you slop you can either point them to the guidelines or, if they don't stop, report them for violating workplace rules and make them suffer.

It's obvious that deep learning did/would radically change the part of any job that required analysis of patterns or images. The core point of the OP is exactly the claim you're making, which is that you seem to think that all a radiologist does is either look at images or "sign off" on what AI has done after looking at the pixels.

Hinton said 10 years, what do you say? Could you maybe take from his prediction being wrong that you should practice some humility? Of all the pro-AI arguments people make, the "eventually it will happen" one is one of the strangest. Yes, and eventually the sun will blow up, so what the fuck are we talking about here? Most smart people ten years ago thought truck drivers, cab drivers, radiologists, and customer support would be obsolete by now, hasn't happened.