Look, buddy, I'm in the exact same shoes of yours just two years earlier.
Here are some rules to follow which I found useful:
- Token-max it
- "Talk" to it as if you are just talking to yourself, as if you are just thinking out loud. Don't try to interpret any response.
- Don't criticise AI at work, especially not to your managers
The goal here is to keep employed, while retaining your morality (up to certain level) and professional skills.
I can't speak for your company, but most out there with a CEO pushing down AI is with a goal of reducing the number of employees. Career speaking we're all doomed. Keep being paid by then would not be a bad idea.
The more you out-source your work to LLM (or even another human), the more unskilled you become.
Environmental impact is unavoidable. The old argument still works, "To Nazis if not IBM there would have been another company". But we're not firing nuclear rockets here, so accept it or starve.
Fight magic with magic. Use LLM to write annual reports, Jira tickets (who reads them? XD) etc.
If they force you to work on a slop project, just hug your brain and slop it, while being "politically correct". Your brain has bigger purposes. Don't waste it.
When you're free later, you can strip out the application code and write your human code to match parity (using the same set of test).
Hey, guess what, you're still free to write human code. It's just that they will stop paying for it sooner or later. Work on your personal projects is never more fun.
Stay calm. Stay safe. Be patient. Don't be a "hero". The bubble will pop, it's just unlikely you'll be the one who pops it.