Right - "most of my work can be done by Sonnet 3.5" doesn't exactly conjure up an image of a high level or challenging job. It seems the challenge with FAANG companies is getting hired, not the actual work most people do there.

If you're writing something specific to your particular problem, or thinking through how to structure your data, or even working on something tough to describe in words like UI design, it probably is easier to just code it yourself in most high-level languages. On the other hand, if you're just trying to get a framework or library to do something and you don't want to spend a bunch of time reading the docs to remember the special incantations needed to just make it do the thing you already know it can do, the AI speeds things up considerably.