Professional software development seems to be getting harder with AI, not easier, as the scope of the functionality and the expectations on the features scales up with the tooling, and you need more and more behind-the-scenes architecture and whiz-bang magic tricks, and have to protect against increasingly clever attacks, and then you have to DevOps, QC, maintain, and iterate, all that crazy stuff. In parallel. While the interfaces you cover all constantly iterate.

It's just added a difficult dimension, to the back, and got rid of the easy dimension, in the front.