I don't think "cope" is the right word for it. I totally agree with the author that it's not as much fun now. But that isn't an argument against using AI tools to write code. I'm a professional. It's certainly nice if my professional work is fun, but it just ... might not be.

I have definitely been finding more joy in other parts of the job though, which is also good. But I definitely used to have a lot more fun writing and editing a lot of lines of code than what I do now, which is mostly reading and reviewing them.