I find this incredibly hopeful. I love programming. But I'm a CTO. My job is to make sure business goals are met through tech - not the other way around. I'm O

I find this incredibly hopeful. I love programming. But I'm a CTO. My job is to make sure business goals are met through tech - not the other way around. I'm OK with this, but part of me always found it sad. Now, if you add the possibility that AI will replace programmers at some point in the future (I'm not on the hype train, but I definitely acknowledge the technical possibility that this could happen at some point in the future), and if I think a bit further and assume humanity will figure it all out and we'll all have more time for our hobbies, even then, what use is my hobby of programming? When all it was ever good for was to achieve business goals? It's refreshing to think it's really not. That it can be art, human self expression, the exchange of ideas, experiences and feelings, a source of joy for me and others. I feel more OK about the future than before I read this, even though the notion wasn't entirely new to me.