There is a future timeline, I guess, where programming becomes similar to poetry.

"Wait, what?", you say. "But poetry was never a utilitarian, economic thing."

It absolutely was. Pre-literate societies pretty much ran on poetry. So many of the tools of the poetic trade are basically tricks for getting an unassisted human brain to remember things.

"Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
who's the fairest ..."

You can remember the rest because it is a poem.

Before writing, poetry was how culture got transmitted. In the "Viking age", poetry was one of the main means of inter-community communication; and if you wanted to diss a rival without fighting a duel, you'd compose an unflattering poem about them.

Poetry doesn't serve any utilitarian purpose anymore, because we have writing now. We've had writing for so long that it seems weird to imagine that poetry was once a big deal; a load-bearing pillar of social survival.

And maybe if the LLMs end up writing all the utilitarian corporate code, there is still a place in our culture for weird people who know how to express themselves in a way that machines can interpret. Maybe agent skills and specifications become the literature of the new world, and mindmade code becomes its poetry. If no longer commercially valuable, it may remain an anchor to an older way of thinking, with its own aesthetic and its own traditions - and possibly also still some character-building value, at least for a specific kind of character.

But what the fuck do I know. I'm just a programmer. I'm not creative.