[gos9]

Do you stop gardening because farms exist? Do you stop playing chess because engines have surpassed every human grandmaster? Do you stop driving because cars can drive themselves?

The tool doesn’t invalidate the craft. If anything, what we’re mourning when AI “kills the passion” might be about identity.

Many programmers spent decades defining themselves as the person who knows how to do hard things

And it’s disorienting when that thing becomes easy.