It's still OK to enjoy programming
Chris Kiehl pushes back against the doom on Hacker News: yes, AI has changed the economics of hand-written code at work, but work is not life. He still codes on weekends for fun—building a buggy Breakout clone, exploring dependent types in Java, and wrestling with recursion schemes—because solving hard problems and understanding beautiful ideas is rewarding in itself, no economic justification required.
I write this because I increasingly feel a strange social pressure. It's like I'm not "supposed" to enjoy this any more. As though there's no point or joy to be had in continuing to grow as a human.