You can mourn the old constraint, or use the new capacity to solve broader, deeper and more ambitious problems than before.
Some will rise to that responsibility. Others will romanticize the constraint.
Some developers say AI has killed the joy of coding.
AI does not prevent you from thinking through the architecture, reasoning from first principles or taking ownership. It removes the excuse that implementation capacity was the limiting factor.
Reading, interrogating and validating code you did not personally type can demand more judgement than writing it line by line. Refusing to develop those skills is not a defence of craft.
The uncomfortable truth is that implementation was never the full job. It was the bottleneck
Creative work suffers when a deadline is imposed on it. If you’re going to anyway (for rational business reasons) the least you can do is not make it an arbitrary one. Let them cook!!