There is always someone better than you at almost everything you do, this is statistical reality.

If all you care about is the artifact and not the path, there is no reason to do anything.

Use the tool to better yourself, your understanding and push the limits of what is possible. If a Lisp in assembly with GC is now hello world, change what a hard project is.

I see this attitude a lot, and I think it is rooted in a sort of self-centered elitism. Anyone can do it, so why do it? Instead you could have the AI teach you how to implement it yourself with a deep understanding that no human, even if you paid them, would put up with.

But sure, get depressed. But why tho?

is learning how to accomplish or understand something boring

just because someone or something else does it better?

It's funny, in the 8-bit days a lot of us learned programming for its own sake without much expectation it'd be lucrative. Took ~50 years to get back to that spirit as the default.

It depends why you're doing it. Are you doing it for the product or the process? (Of course, they're not mutually exclusive.) I do it for the fun of building, in which case AI is irrelevant.

I mean it’s still worth doing, even if AI can do it. But I definitely empathize with that bit of AI ennui.