‘Grief and the AI Split’

Thoughtful personal essay arguing that AI coding tools are exposing a pre-existing divide between developers motivated by craft versus those motivated by outcomes — the former mourn the loss of the act of writing code, while the latter (like the author) find AI a natural progression. The author distinguishes two types of grief: craft grief (the texture of coding itself) versus contextual grief (the changing web ecosystem and career landscape). Reflective rather than technical, but directly relevant to any developer navigating their relationship with AI tools.