@monteluna
In 2013-2014 I worked on a major bioinformatics project at Dana-Farber. Throughout those 2 years, we rolled a mix of angularJS, Java, and R. I wrote a total of 147K LOC. All of it was hand coded, and all you had was an IDE and stack overflow. Back then I was using Brackets as my main IDE as well.
The past week with my new client, I rolled 70K LOC. Mix of Zed, claude, and nicotine.
Yes, I am aware that LOC doesn't measure quality, but I am making the point that this industry has definitely made a radical shift.
The problems are still there of course and it still takes skill to make products people use, but you just discover them faster. Way faster.