> but I feel less emotionally invested in the craft of coding.

I don't think caring about the craft of coding and using AI tools are mutually exclusive options. I think you can totally do both! In a way, some of these tools actually allow you more space and time to "care about the craft" because they can take care of all of the mundane boilerplate for you.

A man once said "Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."[1]. Well IMO these tools allow programmers the time/space to care about data structures and their relationships -vs syntax and such.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25501427