I will write code until the day I die. It is an art form which I embrace, alongside many other art forms I enjoy creating in like electronic music, writing, essays, travel, photography, and much more.

It is a terrible mistake that some people have come to believe that code is only as useful as its final executable result, and not the art of expressing logic and meaning within a computer system purely on its own merits.

Yes, same here. I've continued to write software all my life, and resisted nearly any kind of management position (except when design was also involved). It's a creative process, and I've also occasionally focused on a personal project during holiday seasons and spent weeks in various cozy cafeteria corners with coffee (later lunch), a notebook and documents, writing code and staying in the flow for hours. Nothing is better for my brain than that (but of course not meaning _only_ doing that).

One point is that I can't see how, even with the most (not yet existing) AI to "write code" this can allow me to enter and stay in the flow, the mental state where nothing else exists than the creative flow in my mind, and hours fly by without me even noticing. If the AI is like a smart co-worker and my job is to sit there and explain.. one, there will be no flow, and two, there will be no fun. I'm not doing that.

You go! I don't think a lot of people believe that. No matter what, typing code will be around as a fantastic hobby and exercise. Just maybe not as a way to get paid.

I feel exactly the same way!

I love love love coding. When I'm done with work, and I have time between family stuff, I code to relax!

If I have a fun project, I could easily code from when I wake until I go to sleep, and have before having a kid.

It's a pure joy second only to family

I am reading the book "flow" at the moment and this echoes the authors sentiments.

Infact it feels like one of the few books to change my perspective on life.