As a very amateur woodworker in addition to my day job, I have always thought the power tool analogy is a good one for LLMs. The tools don’t remove the need for skill and being very very careful with how you use them. You can work faster but do a lot more damage also.

This is how I've felt for a long time now. Sadly, I work at a company whose leadership is incessantly pushing "AI native" and I recently was denied a promotion in part because I don't share our VP's rosy view of AI. "Innovation teams" who generate all of their code with AI get tons of recognition while real engineers that are doing real work behind the scenes are ignored by leadership. I keep hoping this bubble will burst and sanity will return, but I fear that the hold AI has on executives' minds may be a permanent one.