No. That's not how it works. Reading code towards refactoring it is harder than writing new code. Lots of fine literature has been written about this, it's all psychology and cognition.
What you are trying to propose is that computer generated code should somehow make a programmer feel better about one self because they are given the opportunity to improve something that no one knows where is coming from and without a context.
I think you are forgetting that computers can not generate context aware systems or programs. Look at the list by the author - useless in a different context than the one the author lives in. It does not improve anything, it simply adds more things someone else potentially has to worry about. Furthermore it adds to the same cognitive load than any other code - one needs to read it before one can change it, and changing it is really the first step to fully understanding it.
You are not fixing anything old with AI generated code. Ask yourself also, where is the upstream you are trying "to fix".
What you are trying to propose is that computer generated code should somehow make a programmer feel better about one self because they are given the opportunity to improve something that no one knows where is coming from and without a context.
I think you are forgetting that computers can not generate context aware systems or programs. Look at the list by the author - useless in a different context than the one the author lives in. It does not improve anything, it simply adds more things someone else potentially has to worry about. Furthermore it adds to the same cognitive load than any other code - one needs to read it before one can change it, and changing it is really the first step to fully understanding it.
You are not fixing anything old with AI generated code. Ask yourself also, where is the upstream you are trying "to fix".