Unfortunately it is. Thought the whole thing was a scam until six months ago. I think pretty highly of my development skills and have to be objective and admit I am outclassed in debugging and operational tasks now (and it isn't close). Writing non-script code isn't quite there yet (they are bad at abstraction) but I can't confidently predict how much longer that will be the case.

> No. No it is not, despite how many times AI proponents like to claim it is.

Why do you think there isn't a huge difference? I've used AI tools over this time period and the difference is very obvious.