This resonates with me, but what helped was to come to a realization.

I love coding. I love low level coding. But I haven't written any code in the last 6 months, roughly.

But I don't feel empty or dissatisfied at all. My realization for myself is that I love solving problems and designing elegant solutions. Using AI, I still have to do that. I still have to make choices about how I want specified modules to interoperate. I know the big picture, and can catch when the AI is taking a shortcut.

I realized that it is all still low level design in my eyes. And I enjoy doing it, whether with my own hands, or with AI.

The amazing thing with AI, though, is that it has allowed me to explore so many things much quicker than I could before. It's still my design, my ideas, and even my poor choices that I have to deal with, but it reduces the boiler plate, so to speak.

That, and it has allowed me to explore more than I ever dreamed that I would be able experience.