>the hardest part about being a software engineer is just filtering through AI generated artifacts

This is so real. Jira tickets used to include a paragraph about what the change or feature needed is, a screenshot from figma for what it should look like and that's it.

Now I get tickets from the product manager that contain a whole novel waffling on about specific variables in the codebase that need to be changed which I have to wade through to work out what the prompt was that explains the actual product change desired.