> I actually ship way more features in my side projects. Even work wise I have seen projects delivery speed going half or 1/4th of what it used to be.

Again, you are conflating appearance of productivity, with actual productivity.

Are you shipping more features in your side projects because AI is allowing you to ship more features faster (let's assume at the same level of quality), or are you investing more time in shipping features in your side projects, because you FEEL like AI is a productivity booster and therefore you get more out of your time, even if it's not real?

Are projects at work estimated to be a lower cost because of AI productivity increases, or because estimates were too high previously, and you could always deliver at that speed?

For the second point, I'd add that any launch announcement I see at work touting AI gains of 50-75-90% NEVER hold to any sort of scrutiny, so it's also simply, lies? Employees currently are desperate to look good in the eyes of the CEOs pushing for higher AI adoption.

You're entitled to feeling more productive, I'm just saying you likely aren't, or not by very much. Add to that the fact that you didn't like writing code to begin with, it's easy to fall into this sort of falacy.

To be clear, I do use AI, and I do see some productivity gains, but they're not in writing production code (issue management, automation that was too expensive before, generation of code or artifacts that I don't actually care much about, etc.).