A theory I might have about this is that - AI doesn’t expand total available cognitive load bearing.

I find that I like AI because it makes it easier and more fun to do my job. Faster to fix tech debt, refactor, add tests, gather data. But I can’t act on that many more domains than before.

AI makes easier problems easier but it puts you in contact with that many more hard problems.

It's become common practice for companies to post positions following layoffs that they never intend to fill.