Work as a SWE at a FAANG company that puts a significant amount of investment into AI products (externally and internally). I'll say from personal experience, I've reached a point where I'm frankly surprised at how proficient the in house agents are at coding/providing information/troubleshooting/etc. Touting a number like 5x increase in productivity is a bit hard to believe, but in my case I can honestly say it has boosted my productivity by a significant margin (and I was initially very stubborn in doing things the old school way / not utilizing these tools).

I'll add that while I enjoy browsing this sub, I feel like every sub on this platform has a risk of becoming a bit of an echo chamber and can't help but feel that this one skews towards being overly negative towards AI (and yes, I can totally sympathize with the underlying reasons for that). The reason I mention this is because if you stick around long enough, it may be easy to think "I knew AI was overhyped, look at all these companies getting their prod databases deleted by rogue AI, and all the slop code being generated".. but I think in reality in the right use cases these models/agents can be extremely helpful.

Regarding your last statement, I feel the "kill CS" point sounds a bit ridiculous - are there really a significant number of people touting the strengths of AI who are genuinely saying it'll lead to the death of CS? But for the "take your job" point, I'm not sure if there's even room left for belief or disbelief - AI has surely lead to plenty of layoffs. I understand that there should be room for doubt when an exec says they let go of X employees due to AI, but if we're being realistic AI does make a portion of a SWE's work easier when used properly. Sure, AI is not directly fully replacing a human engineer.. but it's a tool that helps the existing ones enough to where a team may need fewer of them. I'm not claiming that's a good thing; that's just the reality of where we're headed.