You sound like a typical, modern developer to me - and that's not a slam, it's a compliment. I've been developing software for 40 years now and have always worked the same way you do. The only thing that's different is back in the day we didn't have Google, so we relied on books and magazines. We also weren't working with 25 different technologies over several different layers comprising a solution. The world was a lot simpler back then.
Today's LLMs could completely create everything we were creating back then, but guess what? The goalposts shifted. Like they always do. What I've noticed is the more power we developers gain then the more we're expected to deliver. What we now deliver in a sprint would have taken months or years to have delivered back in the day. That's why I'm not worried about AI. It's just another tool to replace developers that'll end up moving the goalposts for what we're developing. Within 10 years a single person will be able to deliver in a day what now takes a team several sprints to deliver. And we'll still be drowning in work.
Today's LLMs could completely create everything we were creating back then, but guess what? The goalposts shifted. Like they always do. What I've noticed is the more power we developers gain then the more we're expected to deliver. What we now deliver in a sprint would have taken months or years to have delivered back in the day. That's why I'm not worried about AI. It's just another tool to replace developers that'll end up moving the goalposts for what we're developing. Within 10 years a single person will be able to deliver in a day what now takes a team several sprints to deliver. And we'll still be drowning in work.