Such dismissive quip is unkind.

The job has changed from a craft to operating an unreliable machine.

Instead of satisfaction of solving challenging problems with your own skill and creativity, you babysit a text extruder and slog through mistakes in its generated output.

Arguably this may make software cheaper to make and accessible to non-programmers, but for people who liked their job it's like being demoted from a restaurant chef to a microwave button pusher.

> What are you saying, you want to type?

Nah, they want to think beyond the superficial prompting level. A lot of real programmers feel exactly the same.

It is hard to notice this sometimes on HN because this site is rife with the very idea-man-VC-pilled-finance-bro-pseudo-hackers that over the past 15-20 years have turned the tech industry from one of optimism for a brighter future to one that most normal people now distrust and hate.