even an AI assist that makes coding twice as fast would, in theory, improve developers’ overall productivity by less than 15 percent. The other 85 percent of their time remains untouched

I stopped reading after this. AI has massively impacted most aspects of my non-coding work including the mentioned planning, understanding legacy code bases, setting up environments, etc etc.

Either this article is written by people with skill issues or - given the platform - its a biased and protectionist take that will fall quickly under the march of reality.