AI in engineering is an accelerator.

Yes, and most engineers effect on the product can be graded on [-1, 1] scale. And I find that the -1s accelerates faster.

If teams are producing high-quality software

I had one of those. My seniors are getting dumber though, and we have twice as many prod bugs as a year ago. I had an outage because someone didn't properly trim an input for fucks sake recently.