IMO what makes things awesome is human hours invested.

The ramen shop website above is pretty, but it's a veneer. It's not weird and awesome, it's just a representation of a site. I spent about... 7 minutes of my life making it. It's a tech demo, nothing more.

If someone actually poured their heart and soul into a vision for a cyberpunk themed ramen cart, and happened to use this because they didn't have the capabilities or funds to do a proper design, suddenly it becomes less of a veneer, and more just a component in the wider vision of that individual. Their human hours poured into the wider thing that's the business becomes what matters.

Ideally what AI does is it amplifies the hours we do pour into things that are weird and awesome, it doesn't replace them.

Strongly agree, I feel like my passion for development as a whole has waned away as AI has gotten more prevalent.

We do things to achieve some end result but it's the journey there that is the most cathartic to me. The "skilled crafts" element of development where careful deliberation and hours of tinkering to get any kind of appreciable output you can admire has been replaced with a one stop dopamine button that skips the whole process that I could find myself getting lost in.

I've taken up carpentry/metal working as a result. Maybe someday we'll have live in robots that do the same for those hobbies that AI did for programmers but I can't see it happening any time soon.