I don't think I should despair too much, and simply grant triumph to a statistical steamroller.
The value is we'll still be making stuff, or yearning for it, and AI becomes a part of our toolkit (or never). Perhaps in your case, we will see Prompt Engineering Patterns someday.
I intend to plop down a tiny fortune enabling my children to have obscene hardware for wherever their personal projects take them, and server-grade CPUs, multiple GPUs, and fiber will be a given.
Just know you're standing at a height somewhere above, and as a giant to me I hope you can see farther ahead :)
Maybe we'll retreat more into our personally-named server, managing a handful of like-minded users, crafting rooms in a MUD no one will read. We'll publish stats for our packet filter, read stories typed by hand, and make little games.
There are still lots of problems we would be completely new to in many domains, people suffering injustice, and are those not things we might be interested in as well?
For sake of learning things, we are still satisfied. Even if AI were to generate it in an instant. For sake of satisficing our home labs and side projects, we find a tiny reprieve.
