Raw LLM Responses

How does this help you in the long term? You already get paid. Time spent researching and problem solving were already baked into your employer's productivity and staffing expectations. The tools you use are available to everyone. Ownership will take more of an interest in them and all your colleagues will be using them too. If you're freeing up hours from your workday, whether you're relaxing in the downtime or taking on additional projects, eventually a new standard of productivity will be achieved and a meaningful number roles like yours will be eliminated. Even if you're one of the lucky ones who keeps his job, that increases competition for the remaining roles, which, remember, also then require a narrowed skill set (less research and problem solving). Both of those factors drive down pay. That's what people mean when they say AI is only going to hurt the masses while it further consolidates power in the hands of the ownership class. You're thinking about the next couple of years when you get to look like a superstar to your employer or spend more time on Reddit at work, but it doesn't stop there. You think as an engineer you aren't that replaceable, but AI just at the level it's at now will affect the value of the job skills you acquired pre-AI. Ownership will need you less and less as it leans on AI more and more. And we aren't even yet talking about a time when AI is capable enough to do some of the actual engineering, which is coming.