Why I don’t feel the excitement when coding now, unlike before because of AI?

A little ironic that the header image was generated using AI, but oh well... Before, when I create a game, I would go to countless YouTube tutorials. Then getting yelled on countless forums because of my poor phrasing (thanks to my Filipino-English) and to my duplicate noob problems like “How to move your character in 2D platformer in Unity3D?”, especially on StackOverflow. Or Google this and that, and then getting deeper into the rabbit hole until I lost track of time. Thanks to my passion in...