Who is doing the promising and why did you listen to them? Did they write it in blood? These statements are strange. It's a way to place vague blame, and remove the onus of critical thought from oneself.

If your employer lets you chill, their competitors will not, and win. That's how it goes.

Prompting and reading detailed AI output all day long, trying to tease apart the goods and bads - it's extremely exhausting. You don't get the mental breaks of pressing the compile or test button, or doing small refactors like pulling a logic into its own function. Coding is gone as a pleasure at work.