I fully respect this. Lots of craftspeople love to work with wood by hand whilst factories build furniture on an industrial scale.
>> AIs fail badly anyway when you are doing things not found much online, e.g. in embedded microcontroller development (which I do)
But you are very wrong about embedded systems development and AI. I do a huge amount of microcontroller programming and AI is a massive productivity multiplier and the LLMs are extremely good at it.