Yeah, my only hope is that this is unsustainable, admittedly for selfish reasons.

I know plenty of engineers being forced to use these tools whether they want to or not. A lot of which are okay with using AI liberally, but don't particularly like generative AI and see it as pretty irresponsible (which feels more true by the week and it is clear from first hand experience). I don't know, there is a huge gradient of users, but I would argue that in previous revolutionary technologies, we didn't have to force people to use a good tool. I didn't have to be forced to use Google search or Google Maps, tech that is now ubiquitous with western society. It seems really suspect that suits have to enforce the use of something that is supposed to change the way we work and be a force multiplier.