As much has many people have voluntarily given into this, a while lot have been pushed into it at work. When the new norm is to be able to deliver everything instantly, quality has to suffer. As much I miss carefully hand rolling all my code under relatively generous deadlines, those days are gone.

> He used to provide really good, thoughtful answers

This hits hard. There’s a senior engineer at my job who is known for well written proposals. Today he shared a doc that had the typical AI formatting, was hard to read, and clearly not his style.

On the other hand, if others use AI to summerize stuff, does it matter anymore?

I have a co-worker who does this now. He's very smart, very capable, very experienced and it's clear that he's just a frontend for Claude now. It's tragic.