Nice to see other devs are also feeling this weird gaslighting from the industry. Well, not nice actually cause I wouldn’t wish this feeling on my worst enemies, but commiseration can help us cope. 
Our industry has always valued quantity over quality, and the promise of shipping even more crappy code even faster must be incredibly tantalizing to tech industry executives. There are ofc great uses of AI for devs that know how to handle it, but the thing that I don’t get about general arguments in favor of AI is that it promises to ship 100x faster or whatever, but all the problems our industry had prior to AI were caused by the fact that we were already shipping way too much code way too fast. It’s kind of like having a really bad itch on your arm, and then rubbing poison ivy on it to make it better. 
As for how to deal with the mental toll all this takes, I strongly recommend finding a hobby that is completely unrelated to technology. Someone else already mentioned getting outside more often, and that’s good if your an outside kind of person, but most of us in this field aren’t, and although it is healthy to go outside regularly and we should all do it, it’s not therapeutic for everyone, so won’t necessarily help with this kind of thing.
Personally, I play trading card games. Going to the local game store and playing a physical card game every week has been very beneficial for my stress levels with work recently. I think deckbuilding and the mathematical gameplay of TCGs satisfies the same parts of my brain that love programming and creative problem solving, and it’s also a social activity that doesn’t involve typing into a computer or pushing buttons on a controller. Anything that can get you out of the house regularly for a semi-social event that isn’t focused on or significantly reliant on technology is good to explore I think.
Cheers!
Though I could see where zig / rust would be useful on occasion.
