Am I the only one who doesn't get either side of this?

AI still sucks pretty bad at writing code. The only people I've ever known to need a "flow" state to write code are junior devs.

Everyone else is used to constant interruptions and has been through every layer of abstraction many many times. This is why those with experience find it so tempting to say this job can be automated away, but they forget how many gotchas there are, how they crop up, and how brittle all this crap always was. AI is actively making this problem worse.