What is my craft worth when AI can write the code?

You are grieving a little, and it is worth saying so. You were paid to know things, and the knowing felt like who you were. Now a model drafts most of it in a moment. That is a real loss to sit with, not to rush past. But the code was the surface of your craft, not its heart. The heart was always judgment: knowing what to build, seeing how a system will break before it does, choosing the simple path over the clever one, understanding the humans the software serves. The model can draft syntax. It cannot hold the whole problem in mind and care whether the answer is good. That was your craft all along; the typing was just how it showed. So let the model draft, and move your pride up a level, to the decisions. Next time it hands you something that works, ask whether it is right, not just whether it runs. That question is your craft, and it is worth more now, not less.