Honestly I do my entire week of work on monday and then spend 4 days trying to get everything merged and deployed.

Trying to get everything merged and deployed counts as work

And is harder than it used to be

If it's not merged and deployed then it's not done...

I would generally say I have a healthy 40hr work week at my current role but multiple MAGNA friends have agents doing the bulk of their work.

Have you not found that checking, editing and altering agent work is a ton of work in itself?

I have.

Based on their LoL play time they have not.

To me the opposite effect seems to occur: management sees one guy get a ton of a certain kind of work done with AI and then expects everyone to increase all work output by that much because they also have access to AI.

Of course "some folks say they work a lot more than they actually do" is also nothing new to AI anyways.

This has always bugged me... if you find a way to do a job twice as fast, do you deserve half the compensation?

No, you get more work to fill the other 50%.

But hey, it's not your employer's job to just hand out money. Demand it. Or, if you truly are a 10x dev, just go solo and work 4 hours a week.

Would seem to come down to whether finding ways to do the work twice as fast is part of your responsibilities, rather than simply turning the crank on the job.

A sysadmin is expected to write scripts to image new machines faster, not continue to set up each one painstakingly by hand.

The next step is to fire half of them and have the other half work a full 40hrs a week.