People who are not "in it" can never understand that "doing it" is the point.

I am a writer. I don't want "AI" to create better writing. I want to write. Because I like writing. Writing is my art.

I also write software. I don't want "AI" to write better software. I like to write software. Writing software is my art.

The people who are trying to force "the point is advancing the x" have never had a craft that they have falling in love with...

I'm also an (amateur) writer and a (mostly past) developer.

I've recently created multiple software projects without writing a line of code, and I love it -- maybe that's because I've worked as a product manager for years: I'm already abstracted from the direct code. I still write code for fun (project euler, advent of code, learning new languages) but I can't imagine the slowness of creating a whole thing from scratch.

I've recently created a hard-science fiction novella. I used AI significantly for research and scientific review, but I wrote every word. I tried having the LLM write it, and the result was awful. Maybe someday (soon?) that will improve, but for now I have to do it the old-fashioned way.

I enjoy both coding and writing directly. But I can easily see a time when it's like jogging, or biking, or going to the gym, rather than being a hunter-gatherer or a factory worker -- a pleasant thing to do, with beneficial effects, but not something done to a specific end.

Nothing's stopping you from writing.

I work with a guy who spins his own yarn with a spindle. That's just all of us now.

I am a reader. I want AI to create better writing. If it creates better writing than those of humans, so be it, it means I gonna read books written by AI.

I architect software and ship applications used by others daily. I want "AI" to write the software instead of doing it myself or delegating it to another developer. If you want to write your software yourself, by all means, go for it.

Only fallen in love with crafts you can make a loving from? The point of these jobs was never supposed to be "Loxicon enjoyed doing them" but the point of the crafts themselves can (still) be any reason you fancy.

Of course "and what do we do now" is going to be its own problem, but don't stop loving the craft over it.

Like a lot of other activities that got automated and done cheaper and faster by machines you may have to do writing and coding as a hobby. It's sort of sad but that's how technological progress always has worked.

For some people advancing the x is the point though. There is nothing wrong with that.

When you mean 'I am X' you mean 'I earn a living as a X'. Nothing stops you from being X in your free time. The tension is that X has a diminishing number of similarly paid alternatives. As a programmer, you have likely automated many beloved jobs away before while you happily typed away. The difference is that now, automation isn't offering alternatives to the jobs destroyed.