> Actually, the most depressing part is that programming languages don't matter as before, the fun on open source projects is gone, and 2x as a team, means management now can do the same with 1/2 of the previous team sizes, most think they always land on the lucky half

I see it very differently:

* AI automated most tedious parts of coding leaving us creative parts (design, research)

* while individual productivity increased, but also complexity of products, systems, problems increased too, I am not sure corps who downsize task-force will benefit from it in long run