> I think there is a section of programmer who actually do like the actual typing of letters, numbers and special characters into a computer

but luckily for us, we can still do that, and it's just as fun as it ever was. LLMs don't take anything away from the fun of actually writing code, unless you choose to let them.

if anything the LLMs make it more fun, because the boring bits can now be farmed out while you work on the fun bits. no, i don't really want to make another CRUD UI, but if the project i'm working on needs one i can just let claude code do that for me while i go back to working on the stuff that's actually interesting.

I think the downside is the developers who love the action of coding managed to accomplish several things at once - they got to code, and create things, and get paid lots for doing it.

AI coding makes creating things far more efficient (as long as you use AI), and will likely mean you don't get paid much (unless you use AI).

You can still code for the fun of it, but you don't get the ancillary benefits.