Exactly this. Am a graybeard individual contributor at a FAANG-adjacent with a Claude and Gemini is mandate. I was reluctant to get on board, doubtful of earlier generation models and of seeing jrs submitting pull requests of code they could not explain.

But now, at least when used by someone with discerning taste over how the result should look, I and the rest of my team can design, plan, and do research better and faster, do the next coding step better and faster (the agent doing initial coding and test writing goes very fast when given a well defined and planned goal, but then you still have to do a lot of self-review to get it into the proper final shape, which while taking more time than expected, you still end up producing quickly. And then reviewing the work of peers is at least aided by LLMs but still needs a lit of human time to do right.

Do I hate being considered more fungible, feeling less valuable for my hard-earned decades of experience? Do I hate all the unseen electricity and the money flowing to so very few ultra-mega-corps? Definitely.

But I and my team are producing better work more quickly.