> (1) ...getting paid for doing what a company wants you to do...?

At my previous company, when the thing they thought they wanted me to do (which was not the thing they actually wanted... but whatever) diverged from my values I quit. You can just do things.

> (2) Do you think all this AI generated code is useless?

Almost universally, yes. Especially in organizations that historically haven't been particularly careful about hiring and have a huge number of young, inexperienced people. There are exceptions but they're rare enough that throwing that particular baby out with the bathwater isn't a big loss.