I feel like I’m being gaslit as I keep reading that there are developers that feel they successfully offloaded the task of coding.

That’s because you are being gaslit.

The people making those claims are either a) not developers in the first place, with no awareness of just how shit the “products” they’re pushing are, b) paid astroturfers trying to prop up AI, or c) former actual developers who’ve become addicted to the speed that’s possible with AI who are downplaying how crappy their own code quality has become because they have no familiarity with their codebase anymore and have forgotten how to do so much as a for loop.

All these people claiming 10x or 100x gains, and everything they’re making is garbage no one should or would touch with a ten-foot pole.