[willsmith72]

Depends on your motive. I enjoy the "art" of programming, but I enjoy even more using it to build cool stuff, make companies happy, start side projects or even businesses.

I've not seen any indication an AI legitimately replacing software engineering, rather enhancing it perhaps resulting in the need for fewer engineers for the same work. Even as an engineer that's a huge win.

The role is less coding, more engineering. I suppose if the "craft" is the coding part, you're right it may need defending, but to me that's not the craft

[rkuodys]

Totally in the same camp. How I see AI improvement- is that if you needed couple developers to launch something, now you can do it yourself. Meaning the cost of launch is lower and that I think should be appreciated not fighted against.

If developer is actually solving the problems, it's like giving a tractor to dig a hole in addition to shovel