I do miss programming instead of reading code. But I enjoy designing and picking languages and tools. For me AI has been great (so far): I revived old projects and came up with new ones, including branching to hardware products. This would have never been achievable without AI. Not because a lack of skill. I'm sure I could have picked any of the projects and see it through. But I wouldn't have, because the time and effort wouldn't have justified the result. And I would never have been able to do so many of them. I would have needed to pick one, pour many, many hours of work into it and all the other things would need to wait. So I could have done a fraction, but in reality I would have hardly done any. So for me it's enabling.

It's not that I couldn't have. I wouldn't have.