i felt like this for some time and then i found my sweet spot.
i think it comes down to pushing the boundaries of what you can do now and couldn't before.
Spoke with many friends recently, designers and engineers, all people who've been doing it for 20 years or more and had a lot of success doing it.
And they all say the same thing. The AI stuff is genuinely useful right now. It's fast and things that used to take a week take an afternoon. Things you never even attempted because there was no time, now you can just do them. It's the biggest enabler ever.
But in the same breath, every single one also says that it's the least fun they've ever had in their entire career. They also mention it makes no sense to do it the old way. They're all in.
It's a strange paradox which I feel myself. Everything is possible now and I've never cared less about any of it. Both things true at once.
Not sure if thats just the feeling of the current moment, or if I just talked to people who're tired of the computer (since all of them been doing it for a long time).