> You describe stuff that is harmful or boring. In an other comment I touched upon this, as there seem to be a clear distinction between people that love programming and those that just want to get results.
There's nothing stopping anyone from coding for fun, but we get paid for delivering value, and the amount of value that you can create is hugely increased with these new tools. I think for a lot of people their job satisfaction comes from having autonomy and seeing their work make an impact, and these tools will actually provide them with even more autonomy and satisfaction from increased impact as they're able to take on bigger challenges than they were able to in the past.
"having autonomy and seeing their work make an impact"
I think we are talking about a different job. I mentioned it somewhere else, but strapping together piles of bot generated code and having to debug that will feel more like a burden for most I fear.
If a programmer wanted to operate on a level where "value delivering" and "impact" are the most critical criteria for job satisfaction, one would be better of in a product management or even project management role. A good programmer will care a lot about her product, but she still might derive the most joy out of having it build mostly by herself.
I think that most passionate programmers want to build something by themselves. If api mashups are already not fun enough for them, I doubt that herding a bunch of code generators will bring that spark of joy.
> I think that most passionate programmers want to build something by themselves
Most programmers are working in business-focused jobs. I don't think many of us, in grade school, said "I sure hope I can program business logic all day when I grow up." So I think the passion for 90% of people writing code is really about getting a paycheck. Then they use that paycheck to do what they're really passionate about in their personal life.
So I completely agree that people passionate about coding might want to write that code by hand, I just don't think that group accounts for most people writing code professionally.
There's nothing stopping anyone from coding for fun, but we get paid for delivering value, and the amount of value that you can create is hugely increased with these new tools. I think for a lot of people their job satisfaction comes from having autonomy and seeing their work make an impact, and these tools will actually provide them with even more autonomy and satisfaction from increased impact as they're able to take on bigger challenges than they were able to in the past.