It’s interesting to hear this side. It sounds like you’re experiencing one of the better outcomes, even if it is still depressing. My experience has been rather different with people being given AI, particularly in larger teams (I work with a few different companies as a contractor). Some people who were already good remained good but now put in less work (which is IMO the healthiest way), some deliver more but I get the sense they’re burning out because of the amount of reviewing, arguably one of the least fun parts of development - not to mention the cognitive strain of a rapidly changing system. But the biggest group by far is the average to straight up bad devs being given the magic wishing hat and pouring out shit like there’s no tomorrow with no concept of what is even in their PRs. Especially great when they can just approve each others’ slop code. Think UI being marked ready for release when it doesn’t actually connect to the backend, just returns hard coded mock responses. The amount of QA’s needed has quadrupled in a team I work with, and they’re still overwhelmed (whilst still having more regressions than ever). The worst one is the “Claude said…” experience. When someone picks up an issue to troubleshoot and the result is just whatever came out of the AI, with the person putting in zero effort to even try to understand it, but then expecting a response/review from someone else, who is likely going to hate their life. The interesting part is that we’re both describing the death of the industry, but yours is death by success and mine is death by failure - both caused by LLMs. Personally, I’m planning a career change into cabinetry because my job has gone from fun to mind numbing, and I don’t think I’d be willing to do the “I’ll unfuck your AI developed codebase” career path for any amount of money.