There's two core Marxist concepts that precisely describe what you're feeling: Tendency of the rate of profit to fall [0] and worker alienation [1].
As AI automates more, the "value" of a single line of code drops. To stay profitable, capitalism forces you into a "frenzied" race to produce massive volume at breakneck speed.
You're effectively turned from a craftsman into a manager of machines - alienating you from the actual act of creation.
Stepping back to "think" could be argued is nothing less than you being a good Marxist - rebelling against a system that only ever asks "how much" instead of "why".
As AI automates more, the "value" of a single line of code drops. To stay profitable, capitalism forces you into a "frenzied" race to produce massive volume at breakneck speed.
You're effectively turned from a craftsman into a manager of machines - alienating you from the actual act of creation.
Stepping back to "think" could be argued is nothing less than you being a good Marxist - rebelling against a system that only ever asks "how much" instead of "why".
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation