I think this is the place where a lot of "coders" are now, they only cared about the manual part of the job which is gone.
What's different in software is that developing software always kinda was building and designing factories spitting out copies at the end (while actually creating and distributing the copy increasingly being the easy part). So in this profession you have a split between people who were actually only in for the manual part of building the factory while you have others for whom the manual part always was just a means to an end. With the purely manual part gone there is still a shitton of work left which is in the end a lot more complex and challenging than mere button pushing but it's different work.
I think this is a very small part of the population, if anybody. Craftspeople, perhaps definitionally, are people who care about the work of making AND the results. This is true for many many devs.
But they do still need the job shop machinist which fill essentially the same niche using slightly different tools (mills and lathes rather than forges and hammers). Is your 16 year old implying that LLMs are the programming equivalent of a mill/lathe in metal working?