Unfinished thoughts
AI is good at writing code. The code it writes is a distillation of essentially every line of code ever written. Maybe a “generalization” is a better word. It is an average. The average of the world's code is generally better than what I'd be able to write on my own, and certainly it would take me a lot more time.
What I'm think about this morning though is that the code it writes is not inspired, and that's ok for me. I get inspired by solving problems at work, and this tool is kind of a game changer for me but I completely understand that the craft of writing code was what drew a lot of developers into the field over the last several decades.
Can your inspiration move upstream? To the system you're trying to build to solve the problem you're trying to solve? That tends to be where mine lives, and that's why I don't mourn the passing of a craft that I never felt that good at.