Today, I got a big kick in the gonades.
My boss asked me to manipulates PDFs. Estimated time to learn enough of PDF 1.4 specifications to write something ok-ish: 8 weeks (and using libs like pdfbox).
With AI? One day, then going through the code to remove shit, ask AI to correct specific things, cleaning up and repeating.
For sure, the level required to do it is very high, because the AI makes mistakes you can only see and correct with experience. But man, I was exhausted.
Basically, AI did the easiest part and subtly fucked the hard part. Yet, I skipped weeks of prototyping and skimming the specs.
I am totally unable to do 4 days in a week like that. No more "natural break".
The thing is that companies will ask something close to thay performance due to AI.
The new generation has a huge handicap, because they can't easily build XP. AI remove them that capability.
It will burst when we will be unable to work and the new generation will be unable to correct AI. That's going to be really bad, because we will push it to the max and widen that gap.