Hot take - AI makes working with bad software engineers much more painful.
Bad engineers were somewhat rate-limited.
If they were not very smart they couldn't write a lot of code. There was a correlation between writing code and being smart.
Now how smart you are has nothing to do with how much code you can ship.
Ironically this slows down the strong engineers from writing code themselves since now they have to spend all this time reviewing 2k lines of AI generated slop. I think I have heard the word "slop cannon" used to describe this phenomenon. Great moniker lol.