I noticed during my own automatic programming [1] that although code is free (or more free, at least compared to before coding agents) understanding is not. Instead of investing time to understand and master someone else's software tools, I now still need to understand and master what I build for myself, which can be a lot of fun if you build up your understanding from scratch while building out the tools.

[1] https://antirez.com/news/159

I have to spend hours understanding how other humans have asked the computer to do something, and they are also bad at asking it to do so, so I could have gotten a better result if they just came to me with their desire...