That's _very_ unlikely. The AI craze cured me from my imposter syndrome. Since I only saw marginal gains (~20% increase in velocity on average, if we don't count the increased in PR reviews and production bugfixes), I participated to a few 'AI is the new stuff' presentation with 'ai professionals' that presented my already existing workflow (still improved it a bit, but not much). However, listening to them, I found out that they just aren't very good devs and work on rather easy subjects.

I am sorry that your experience has been so poor. Mine is the complete opposite. I am sure there is a workable middle ground.

I don’t believe that AI will suddenly make a bad engineer into a good engineer. You still need to put the time in and have the skillset. It is the hammer and nail, not the finished house.

Oh and 20% sounds amazing actually. Remember that this is the worst it will be today. The rate of improvement over the last year alone has been phenomenal given that we went from nearly 0 to +20.