Comment by theshrike79

There are two kinds of woodworkers/carpenters. Let's assume both need a table.

The other grabs some wood, runs it through electric planers, chops it with a circular saw and screws it together. Nice, sturdy fast, problem solved over a weekend because the glue had to dry, next time they might use biscuit joins to make it faster. This is the AI programmer.

The other enjoys working with wood, they pick the perfect pieces of a specific wood where the grain matches in a pleasing pattern. Each one is hand-planed to perfection. After that an intricate joinery method is carved into the relevant places and carefully glued together with a natural glue so that the woodgrain matches and the join is practically invisible. A work of art. It also took a month to complete. This is the non-AI programmer.

Both solve the same problem, there is now a table in the world where people can sit and eat.

But. If you were to sell the table and still get compensated fairly, the latter table will be VERY expensive. Same with code. How many projects are there were you can use "this code is hand-crafted and every line beautifully thought of" as a selling point when the competition is using AI and just churning out solutions, even though the code might be basic and not too maintainable - but passes all the relevant tests.