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In what world is programming not challenging? Not in this world. As for AI, this is and will always be a moving target. Currently, the GPT style LLMs can spit out simple functions that will mostly work up to a point. So once you get used to the operational range, it can be handy to have some LLM spit out fragments of code to save time. All this means is that simple things that you are confident you can write and verify can be somewhat automated, and you will shift your efforts to the more difficult tasks that require more care. If you can't think of more difficult tasks, then you lack imagination. The better 'AI' gets, the bigger the portion of the codebase will become automated, and the top-level cutting edge stuff will just accelerate in complexity.