If coding is easy...

Think of it like DJ'ing.

The rock bottom level of being a DJ is putting a playlist together and playing it. Anyone could do that, you've already probably done it on your phone. Maybe even grouped songs by genre or year if you're feeling fancy.

But a good DJ does more than that. They arrange the songs to give a particular vibe, they play around with the transitions to keep people in the music, they may even remix songs or their entire playlist on the fly. They're artists in their own right, making more than the sum of what went in.

... And that's the same as a programmer. Anyone can bumble their way through to writing code - but is that code anywhere close to optimal, properly annotated, maintainable?

GenAI throwing out thousands of lines of shitty code that has to be bug-fixed multiple times over by a developer is a waste of time, energy, computer parts, and money.