The elephaint in the room.
I've seen many posts lately wherein people who use AI are now questioning that use. I even know one programmer who has gone from AI fanboy to "what the hell am I doing?" in a fairly short order of time. In all these 'turncoat' reports we see people touching on, but not quite getting down to, another issue: when AI makes you more productive, management will demand you be more productive.
Say you have some project (any type: it doesn't have to be programming) which will take six months to complete. Using AI allows you to get it done in two months. What happens next? You get ordered to produce three times as much in six months as you normally would. So much for "buffer time"! After all, no management likes to see anyone not swinging their pick axe at the rock wall of production!
So now you have three projects to get done in the six months that normally would only have been enough time to finish one. AI 'to the rescue' again; you complete them all in five months. That means in the next half of the year you will be expected to do seven projects. Et cetera, ad infinitum, ad nauseum until you either break down or walk out the door. Either action resulting in your being replaced by someone "more AI-friendly", i.e. stupid enough to overwork for less wages until they meet the same fate as you.
And what the hell for? What is all this churned-out garbage product? What is it good for? Bloating computers and turning landfills into mountains. The world got on without it for millennia, why does it need it now? Prove that any of this fast-as-possible production is even something worthwhile, never mind of quality. So far all the "promise" of AI coming to save us has been unfulfilled.
But it's doing a damn good job of telling lies, aiding and committing crimes, and driving some people crazy while putting others out of work.
Not one single benefit has been realised. Not one.