>> I've never been the kind of coder >Looks like you were never really a coder, to be honest. I do not understand the bitterness here at all. AI is just a tool

>> I've never been the kind of coder >Looks like you were never really a coder, to be honest. I do not understand the bitterness here at all. AI is just a tool you can use for better or worse. I learnt basic programming at an old age of 10 and 6502 assembler 2 years later from (paper)books. There was no Internet and I dreamed of one day owning a magical software program called Macro Assembler so I could use labels and advanced loops in assembler programs instead of tediously translating examples from the book or magazines using a pencil and paper into assembly without such features. The AI today is like that Macro Assembler for me back then. You, a human, are simply moved one layer of abstraction higher. Did I enjoy writing that assembler back then when the goal was to complete a calculation in the time it took the crt tube's electron gun to draw one line on the screen? Sure. Would I want to write accounting software in it? Hell no. There have been very crappy coders and great coders before and after AI. Just like almost no one writes assembler anymore, almost no one will write normal code in the age of AI. But knowledge of it, how it should be written is still going to be important. Your value as a human is in the architecture of the software and choices that influence it's entire functioning. In maintainability, scalability and resilience present in your design from day 1 not added a year later. You know how much slop and crappy work I saw before AI? A lot.