But people do unpaid painting, horseback riding, calligraphy, etc. which are outdated because they love it. Why is it so unfortunate for you?

In their spare time, with what energy remains after putting most of their energy into work and other obligations.

Of course it is unfortunate to lose the ability to get paid for something they enjoyed.

Don't take it too seriously. But anyway:

I work as a freelancer and started programming at 12. I've been doing it for 40 years now.

I guess I'm ambivalent. On one hand these are crazy times, really stunning. Everything is changing, and AI takes over a lot of stuff I never wanted to do, but also parts of what I loved doing.

This year the time I spend actually programming dropped to 5–10%. Last year it was still 80%. That's a big change for a professional life. It means developers and architects spend their time on design and on proving the code works, not on writing it.

Agent Smith and all the other stuff is one of my side projects. So I'm just being a little nostalgic here, I guess. Nothing too serious ;-)