As someone who hasn't been a professional for too long, I'm curious. Did the general tone of tools in software engineering ever feel like this before? Where we'

As someone who hasn't been a professional for too long, I'm curious. Did the general tone of tools in software engineering ever feel like this before? Where we're talking about replacing engineers instead of assisting them? I learned to code LSPs and stack overflow. I didn't get to experience them being integrated into a developers wirkflow.