> I think there is a section of programmer who actually do like the actual typing of letters, numbers and special characters into a computer.

I don't think this is really it for many people (maybe any); after all, you can do all of that when writing a text message rather than a piece of code.

But it inches closer to what I think is the "right answer" for this type of software developer. There are aspects of software development that are very much like other forms of writing (e.g., prose or poetry).

Like other writing, writing code can constitute self-expression in an inherently satisfying way, and it can also offer the satisfaction of finding "the perfect phrase". LLMs more or less eliminate both sources of pleasure, either by eliminating the act of writing itself (that is, choosing and refining the words) or through their bland, generic, tasteless style.

There are other ways that LLMs can disconnect the people using them from what is joyful about writing code, not least of all because LLMs can be used in a lot of different ways. (Using them as search tools or otherwise consulting them rather than having them commit code to simply be either accepted/rejected "solves" the specific problems I just mentioned, for instance.)

There is something magical about speaking motion into existence, which is part of what has made programming feel special to me, ever since I was a kid. In a way, prompting an LLM to generate working code preserves that and I can imagine how, for some, it even seems to magnify the magic. But there is also a sense of essential mastery involved in the wonderful way code brings ideas to life. That mastery involves not just "understanding" things in the cursory way involved in visually scanning someone else's code and thinking "looks good to me", but intimately knowing how the words and abstractions and effects all "line up" and relate to each other (and hopefully also with the project's requirements). That feeling of mastery is itself one of the joys of writing code.

Without that mastery, you also lose one of the second-order joys of writing code that many here have already mentioned in these comments: flow. Delegation means fumbling in a way that working in your own context just doesn't. :-\