[AStrangeMorrow]

Not sure how to understand that. You mean as the best engineers?

Funnily at my company, the few engineer that did the majority of the work before AI still do the majority of the work now. By majority I mean tackling both more issues and better.

However there is a general verboseness and over engineering trend across the board.

[blensor]

Kind of yes. The person who does not spam the messages.

What I noticed for myself is that saying no to something is becoming harder by the day because, why wouldn't you try something if it's so cheap to do.

That makes having the strength to say no almost a quality in and of itself.

That is true both for external pressure and internal pressure.

[LtWorf]

Saying "no" as in "this makes no sense" is not the same as "give it to another team". The first can be an engineering take while the second is just politics.