>Ever since LLMs started writing decent code, I started feeling like a part of that joy of code-writing has been taken away.

The SWEs that go all-in on AI will never understand this, because they have never enjoyed the joy of code-writing. I would even go as far as saying that many of them even hate it.

Of this group, I think the majority are the same people that have joined the industry not because of an innate love for engineering, but because they saw an opportunity to make big bucks in big tech.