I generally feel the same. But in addition, I also enjoy the pure act of coding. At least for me that’s another big part why I feel left behind with all this Agent stuff.
I agree, that's another factor. Definitely the mechanical act of coding specially if your are good at it gives the type of joy that I can imagine an artisan or craftsman having when doing his work.
Agreed, but the terminology doesn’t seems to be the point. It makes some decent arguments about “on-demand” learning not being great for learning theoretical things.
Implicitly, on-demand is also rapid. I can look up how to use a library in minutes and hours. Most people don't have jobs where they can allocate weeks or months to learning theory that they didn't need before. But such situations do exist: employers send staff on courses, and people sign up for part time degrees.
As I see it learning “on-demand” is good enough for most programming tasks. But I agree with the blog post tat the situations you mentioned where a person can actually learn new theory and perhaps push the boundaries are increasingly rarer.
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