We got broad and wide access to AI tools maybe a month ago now. AI tools meaning claude code, codex, cursor and a set of other random AI tools.
I use them very often. They've taken a lot of the fun and relaxing parts of my job away and have overall increased my stress. I am on the product side of the business and it feels necessary for me to have 10 new ideas and now the ones with the most ideas will be rewarded, which I am not as good at. Ive tried having the agents identify opportunities for infra improvements and had no good luck there. I haven't tried it for product suggestions but I think it would be poor at that too.
I get sent huge PRs and huge docs now that I wasnt sent before with pressure to accept them as is.
I write code much faster but commit it at the same pace due to reviews taking so long. I still generate single task PRs to keep them reviewable and do my own thorough review before hand. I always have an idea in ny head about how it should work before getting started, and I push the agent to use my approach. The AI tools are good at catching small bugs, like mutating things across threads. I like to use it to generate plans for implementation (that only I and the bots read, I still handwrite docs that are broadly shared and referenced).
Overall, AI has me nervous. Primarily because it does the parts that I like very well and has me spending a higher portion of my job on the things I dont like or find more tiresome.