> Here is something that gets lost in all the excitement about AI productivity: most software engineers became engineers because they love writing code.

This resonates somewhat, but for a different reason. My mental model is that there are two kinds of developers, the craftsmen and the artists.

The artist considers the act of writing code their actual fulfillment. They thrive on beautifully written code. They are often attached to their code to a point where they will be hurt if someone criticizes (or even deletes) it.

The craftsman understands that code exists to serve a purpose and that is to make someone's life easier. This can be a totally non-technical customer/user that now can get their work done better. It could be another developer that benefits from using a library we wrote.

The artist hates LLMs as it takes away their work and replaces their works of beauty with generic, templatized code.

The craftsman acknowledges that LLMs are another tool in the toolbelt and using them will make them create more benefits for their customers.