The future of software and technology was already looking pretty bleak pre-AI. Now the AI slopification of everything feels like the final death blow to me.

certainly changes the landscape for professional work (for the worse mostly), but I'm having a blast in my personal work.

Really? AI is finding and fixing critical bugs that have existed for decades. Hobbyists are recreating and remixing closed source games that have been abandoned. It has never before easier for a total amateur or an experienced coder to create as capable tools as now.