Is AI Turning Software into flat-pack Furniture?

AI-assisted development is incredible. Tools like Claude, Copilot and Warp are helping us to move faster, reduce friction and understand complex systems more easily. In an increasing number of teams using them isn’t optional, it’s expected. The results speak for themselves. Productivity is up. Delivery is faster. Barriers are lower. But there’s a trade-off I don’t see discussed enough - Coding is starting to feel different. What was a craft is now a process: Plan → Refine → Generate → Review → Adjust → Generate Commit message → AI-Assisted Peer Review → Ship There’s less time spent exploring the problem space. Less trial and error. Less of that moment where a solution finally “clicks” - for me, the best bit! It reminds me of the flat-pack furniture you get from Ikea. AI gives you all the pieces and instructions and then it'll even assembly it for you (like Airtasker or Task Rabbit). But it’s not quite the same as designing and building something yourself. So where does that leave the c